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Two Dead in Shipyard Vehicle Wreck
posted (September 24, 2019)
This Morning 37 year old Edin Pop and 35 year old Elodio Copo lost their lives in a car accident in Shipyard Village, Orange Walk District. Pop was travelling from Fireburn to Guinea Grass village when he apparently lost control and flipped. Police told us more today.

ACP Joseph Myvett
"On 23rd September sometime around 4:30am, police were called to an area in Shipyard Village in the Orange Walk District where thet observed a white Ford F-150 pickup with its 4 wheels up in the air inside a shallow creek"

"What was reported to the police is that at the time the vehicle was being driven by one Edin Pop, 37 year of a Guinea Grass Village address and at the time he was accompanied by Elidio Copo, 35 years, also of Guinea Grass Village and they were heading to the area of Fire Burn when he apparently lost control of the vehicle which caused him to go to the creek. On the police arrival both persons were found to be motionless. They were remove from the scene where they were transported to the northern regional hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival."

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