The Tribune

By DENISE MAYCOCK

Tribune Freeport Reporter

dmaycock@tribunemedia.net

TWO people have been killed – a 31-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman – in a car accident in Freeport, Grand Bahama, in the early hours of yesterday. Two other passengers are in the Rand Memorial Hospital fighting for their lives.

The victims are believed to be Glen Laing, the driver, and Andrea Major. Their deaths have pushed the traffic fatality count in Grand Bahama to four for the year.

Police reported that a Chevy Malibu car slammed into a concrete wall on Ponce de Leon Drive during rainy conditions around 1am yesterday. Major was a passenger in the front seat. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

Two other passengers, believed to Freddie Potter and an unknown female, are in hospital in critical condition. Police have not released any of the victims’ identities and are continuing their investigation into the accident.

Inspector Terecita Pinder reported that some time after 1am police and officers from the Fire Branch were called to the scene of a traffic accident on Ponce de Leon Drive and Wellington Street. She said that a vehicle had collided into a residential wall and four people were trapped inside the car, which had landed upside down in a yard.

Firemen used the “Jaws of Life” to remove the victims from the wreckage. People gathered at the scene believed that speed and wet, rainy conditions could have been a factor. The vehicle was extensively damaged.

Insp Pinder issued an appeal to motorists to always wear their seatbelts, obey the speed limit and to refrain from drinking and driving.