Man dies in car crash at Pembroke

Police investigators are still putting the pieces together, in an effort to determine what caused a fatal vehicular accident over the weekend.{{more}}

Sometime after 10:00 p.m. last Sunday, Belair resident Ashley Hope was declared dead at the scene, about two hours after the vehicle he was driving collided with another vehicle, on the Pembroke main road on the country’s Leeward coast.

Hope, whose age was given as 34, was the driver of motor vehicle P8014, travelling in the direction to Kingstown with another passenger, when he collided with minivan HQ 424, driven by John Browne.

The labourer reportedly died on the spot, while other persons injured in the crash were transported to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, where they were treated.

Hope, whose closest relatives are said to be overseas, was described by friends who turned up at the wreckage as a cool, easygoing individual.

One friend said that the young man had forgone plans to attend one of the rural carnival events that day, and chose to instead go to a cook-out, which had taken place in the town of Layou.

Hope is said to have received a telephone call, and was on his way to meet another individual when the accident occurred, just past the newly constructed CK Greaves supermarket.

His death brings the number of road fatalities for the year to four.

The accident was one of many that took place over the last weekend. None of the others was as serious.(JJ)