Member of the Coastguard dies in Traffic Accident

A member of the Belize Coast Guard died on Monday night in Toledo. Twenty-year-old Anthony Pop was reportedly exercising near the Swasey Bridge on the Southern Highway when an eighteen-wheeler truck knocked him down and crushed him. He was transported to the Southern Regional Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The driver of the truck was fifty-six-year-old Pedro Ico.