Family Seeks Help for Crash Victim Fighting for Life

The family of 26-year-old Giovanny Diego is pleading with the public for assistance as he fights for his life following a traffic incident on the Thomas Vincent Ramos Highway. Diego, a resident of Independence Village, sustained a severe head injury after a collision involving two motorcycles and a blue Chrysler sedan around between miles 42 and 43 on Saturday night. When Bella Vista Police arrived on the scene, they found all three vehicles in the bushes off the left side of the road. Diego was found to be unresponsive. He was first transported to the Independence Polyclinic, then transferred to the Southern Regional Hospital, and later to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he remains in a critical condition. Love News spoke with his family members who explained the condition he is currently in. 

Roma Montes, Family Member: “So far he’s still in the coma right now, he has not woken up for nothing and they’re trying to safe his hand and his foot because the doctor doesn’t want to cut it off. And so far he has a little bleeding in his head, that one keeps bleeding. One of his feet is fractured badly and his left hand the same thing.”

Reporter: And also to the back of the skull ? 

Roma Montes, Family Member: “Yes he has a burst to the back of the head and one or two in the middle of his head.”

Reporter: Okay so far like you said it’s going for a week already have you guys gotten an update from the Belize Police Department ? 

Roma Montes, Family Member: “Not as yet.”

Reporter: Not as yet, so they have not come and sit to talk with you about the incident ? 

Roma Montes, Family Member:  “No. No. From that accident happened we have not seen a police up until now.”

Father: “According to sources they’re saying that he was trying to overtake a bus and then another vehicle was coming and he pulled in back and he hit the guy. He hit one and then the other one hit the other one.”

Reporter: Okay so it was like a domino effect kind of thing. 

Father: “Exactly.”

Reporter: So the driver from Monkey River ran into the back of your son’s motorcycle along with the other friends.

Father: “Yes, not my son’s motorcycle he was the passenger.”

Reporter: How many individuals were in the accident ? 

Father: “Three.”

Reporter: And I know of two, all three of them from Independence right ? 

Father: “Yes sir.”

Reporter: And unfortunately your son is the one that sustained the most sever injuries ?

Father: “Yes.”

Two other young men, 19-year-olds Dirk Dubon and Dantay Green, also from Independence, suffered less severe injuries and are in stable condition.