(Eleuthera, Bahamas) – Early on Friday morning, February 22nd, 2019, sometime around 5:00am, officers at the Rock Sound Police Station received reports of a traffic accident on Queen’s Highway in the area of the Rock Sound Airport.
Responding officers encountered a grey 2007 Nissan Note which had collided into a tree off the eastern edge of the highway with extensive damage to the front right end. There were two occupants of the vehicle who were both residents of Eleuthera – the driver, 57 year old Reginald Johnson, of Wemyss Bight, was unresponsive, and the front seat passenger, a woman who was conscious, suffering from reported chest pains and lacerations to both legs.
According to reports, initial investigations and witness accounts suggest the vehicle was being driven in a southern direction travelling around a bend on the roadway when, the vehicle swerved suddenly leaving the thoroughfare in an eastern direction colliding into a casaurina tree. The passenger informed officers that after the collision a passing motorist provided assistance.
At 5:30am, while at the Rock Sound Clinic, Dr. Sidney Smith pronounced the driver deceased. Eleuthera Traffic Section is on scene coordinating investigations into this incident.
