For the latest news across Belize, visit: A red Ford van carrying a family of American tourists on Thursday afternoon flipped several times on the Philip Goldson Highway in the Orange Walk District. Seventy-seven-year-old Carolyn Moxley Gillis, a resident from the state of Georgia, was flung out of the vehicle between miles forty-one and forty-two. She died instantly. Also in the van were seventy-nine-year-old John Gillis, who received injuries to the right ear, an abrasion to his left hand and bruises to the right arm, forty-five-year-old John Milton Gillis Jr. who received minor injuries to the left arm, forty-three-year-old Lynette Gillis who received abrasions to the back, and ten-year-old Mary Claire Louise Gillis who complained of pain to her neck and head. Ten-year-old Caroline Gillis and thirteen-year-old Rylan Gillis both complained of injuries to the neck and back. Driving the van was taxi operator Henry Gillett, who according to police, lost control of the vehicle after suffering a blowout.
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