Sunday Morning Road Death

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Sunday, 22 July 2012 19:14

By caribarena news

Antigua St. John's - The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal traffic accident that occurred on the Coolidge Main Road in the vicinity of the Old Sugar Mill Hotel at 04:55 am on Sunday.

The deadly crash involved a blue and yellow motor cycle registration number A32194.

Dead is 38 year-old André John-Baptist of Golden Grove.

John-Baptist was at the time transporting Joy-Ann Joseph of All Saints Village. Joseph was seriously injured in the incident, sustaining an amputated leg.

According to information released by the Antigua & Barbuda police force, the motorcycle was travelling from South to North on the Coolidge road when it run off the road on the western side into a concrete garbage receptacle.

When Caribarena.com visited the scene around 7:00am the body was still on the scene as lawmen awaited the arrival of a pathologist to officially confirm the death.

It was observed that the motorcycle’s license number was out of date having expired in February.

Investigators on the scene noted that based on all indications, the passenger Joy-Ann Joseph was thrown from the bike and landed some six feet away from the driver.

Her left leg was torn off completely and was found some distance from her.

Blood trails on the paved road showed also that Joseph had attempted to drag herself from where she had initially landed to the motionless body of Andre John-Baptist.

Joseph and the amputated leg were transported to the Mount St. John’s Medical Center (MSJMC) where it is expected that doctors will attempt to reattach the detached limb.

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