The Tribune

THE country’s traffic fatality count climbed to ten after a man died of his injuries in a crash on Cat Island this weekend. The driver of a white Ford Escape died after he was thrown from his vehicle during the accident with a grey Ford Club Wagon shortly after 11pm on Saturday.

The Ford Escape had five other passengers, according to police, who said that two other men were airlifted to New Providence for treatment. The accident occurred in Douds, just south of New Bight, and a team of officers from the Road Traffic Department are on Cat Island to assist with investigations.

The accident follows the deaths of two men in a traffic accident in Hard Hill, Acklins last Monday. They were travelling on Queens Highway, heading from Snug Corner to Pinefields, when one of the tyres on the vehicle blew, causing the car to flip over several times before coming to rest on its roof in nearby bushes.

Both the driver and the passenger were ejected from the vehicle – a 2008 Scion. The driver died on the scene and the passenger of his injuries in a local clinic a short time later. Investigations in both matters are continuing.