Local News

A traffic accident early this morning on the Northern Highway has claimed the lives of three persons and has left two more injured.  The mishap occurred at two twenty-five this morning at mile eleven and a half and involved two vehicles.  Love News has received unofficial reports that the victims are: the driver of a Saturn vehicle, Police Constable Deon Makin, who was recently transferred from the Anti-Drug Unit to the Patrol Branch; twenty-five year old Edwin Crawford, who was seated behind Makin, and a female who is yet unidentified.  The two who were injured are: eighteen year old Elaine Canul from Independence, who remains in a critical condition, and twenty-one year old Day Avila who received minor injuries.  Reports are that the Saturn in which these five were traveling crashed head on into another vehicle driven by a Taiwanese national.  The police have not yet released any official information on this accident.