A deadly single-vehicle crash on Belize’s George Price Highway has ended the life of a young local businessman, marking the third fatal road accident recorded across the country in a single Sunday afternoon in June 2026.
First responders were dispatched to the stretch of highway between mile markers 21 and 22 just after 2 p.m. on June 8, 2026, following reports of a crash. When police arrived at the scene, they made a grim discovery: a heavily damaged gray Ford EcoSport SUV resting roughly 200 feet off the paved roadway, and 43 feet away from the wrecked vehicle lay the unresponsive body of 29-year-old Jii Lung Wu, a Chinese entrepreneur based in Belmopan City.
Preliminary findings from the ongoing investigation outline that Wu was traveling alone in his SUV when he lost control of the vehicle at the mile 21 marker. The SUV rolled multiple times after veering off the highway, ejecting Wu from the cabin, said Assistant Superintendent Stacy Smith, a Belize Police Department staff officer, in an official briefing.
This latest tragedy comes only days after another motorcyclist was killed in a crash just 50 miles north, near the highway’s mile 72 marker. Shockingly, this incident was not an isolated fatality: officials confirmed that Wu’s death was one of three fatal road traffic accidents that occurred across Belize on that same Sunday, pointing to a troubling spike in deadly road incidents in the region.
Local law enforcement teams continue to work to pinpoint additional contributing factors to the crash, including whether speed, weather conditions, vehicle mechanical failure, or driver impairment played a role in the loss of control. This report is adapted from a transcript of a televised evening newscast original published by the local media outlet.