dominica2day: Vehicular accident claims another life

Vehicular accident claims another life
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admin on 16 April, 2006 05:00:00
 
Dominica recorded its fourth road fatality in just as many days following a
traffic accident in the Grande Savanne area in Salisbury earlier this morning
which left one man dead and two others seriously injured. Kennedy Pascal, driver
of a blue Kia truck registration # TA732 died after attempting to unsuccessfully
bale the truck which had developed problems with its the breaking system.
Several eye-witness reports indicated that the truck, which was loaded with
bananas, seemed to have lost its breaking system while shuttling down the hill
before plunging into a concrete wall. The two passengers at the front of the
truck and chauffer baled out as the truck sped out of control. The passenger in
the box of the truck however did not have time to vacate the truck before the
deadly impact. One woman speaking on the condition of anonymity said that
“when the truck slammed into the wall, the box started flipping and breaking
up.”
Although the men were able to vacate the truck before impact, two of them
sustained serious injuries while Pascal was killed being trapped and squeezed
under the rear wheels of the truck. The injured men were treated at the
Salisbury Clinic before being transferred to the Princess Margaret Hospital. The
police are investigating the matter. A coroner’s inquest touching the death of
Kennedy Pascal is to be conducted. This will be folowed by a post mortem.