By Breaking Belize News Staff (HP): A 36 year old man of Yo Creek Village, Orange Walk District, has died after his pickup truck crashed into the back of a parked trailer on the Philip Goldson Highway.
Police say the crash happened around 8:00pm on Thursday, October 8, in front of the Shell gas station between Miles 52 and 53.
The man was driving a red 2007 Lincoln Mark LT pickup from Belize City toward Orange Walk Town when it collided with the rear of a trailer being towed by a tandem truck that was parked off the highway, facing the same direction.
When police arrived, he was trapped in the driver’s seat. Firefighters helped remove him from the vehicle.
He was taken to the Northern Regional Hospital morgue, where he was certified dead at 10:27pm.
A post mortem examination on Friday found the cause of death to be cardiac tamponade from a ruptured ventricle, caused by blunt force trauma to the chest.
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