Speeding Vehicles Nearly Kill Belize City Woman

Tonight, a Belize City woman is counting her blessings after a terrifying brush with death on Wednesday evening. Kasheen Flowers and two of her co-workers were walking along Central American Boulevard just after 6:20 p.m., when out of nowhere, a car and a motorcycle came speeding straight toward them. In the chaos, Kasheen was hit and knocked unconscious. She suffered a serious head injury and says she’s lucky to be alive. Now, she’s speaking out, not just to share her story, but to send a message to drivers, slow down and stay alert. Because one careless moment could cost someone their life.

 

Voice of: Kasheen Flowers, RTA Victim

“The cycle and the car, I saw them, like they were like attached. I don’t know if they were racing or what. I don’t want to say. I’m just saying what I see. And a white flash just come inna my face and that was it. I went unconscious, so like approximately like ten to twenty minutes. While my body still at shock. I didn’t know what even took place.  I get my eye a little open to see. My eye was blurry. I hardly could have seen anything, but I just saw the white car people were around. I heard a white man telling me that mommy noh go sleep. You just barely got wa  dig pan your face and I feel that blood rushing heat, it was, my blood was hot. This could have been anyone. And like I said, I didn’t expect this to happen. So, I just wanted to put it out there, drivers, cyclist, anyone that’s behind those wheels, you got to be careful because playing with someone’s life that’s very irresponsible. And to my case, I was coming home to my daughter, so imagine. And my mom, they wouldn’t even know that something happen if not for the people that was on the scene, majority of them know me and know where I live on my street, so they would try to notify my mom. So they need to be very careful. Because I said to myself, the sidewalk when supposed to be safe, that noh even safe no more. The way how this incident happen, overtake each other, or whatever is the case, da person gine way pan di sidewalk fi me.”