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Tourist Charged For Causing His Own Wife’s Death in San Pedro
posted (December 9, 2024)
And in another traffic fatality out at the Cayes another RTA involving a Golf Cart in San Pedro claimed the life of an American woman. It happened last Friday and tonight, the victim's husband has been charged. The pair were vacationing in Belize. ACP Romero gave us more details:

ACP Hilberto Romero, OC Eastern Division
"On Friday the 6th day of December 2024 police responded to a fatal accident on the Secret Beach Road in San Pedro. Upon the arrival they learned that a female had been taken for treatment. San Pedro Police visited the San Pedro Polyclinic where they found Jennifer Hernadez with injuries to the head and body there after she succumbed to her injuries. Investigations revealed that she was riding along with her boyfriend in a golf cart when the boyfriend drove and hit a bump causing her to fall off the golf cart causing her fatal injuries. An investigation was carried out and her boyfriend Jeremy Flores has since been arrested and charged for Reckless driving and drove without due care and attention causing death by careless conduct and failed to provide a specimen for analysis. It was suspected that he had been consuming alcoholic beverages."

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