Freeport – American tourist Charles Powell testified on Wednesday in Magistrate’s Court that the taxi-bus that he, his wife and several other family and friends were in on the night of January 23 last year when his wife was killed, overturned about eight or ten times after it was hit by a speeding car.
Mr. Powell, a resident of Pickerington, Ohio, was on vacation in Grand Bahama with his wife Dottie. She died instantly after being thrown from the vehicle and landing on an iron rail on a wall.
Cheryl Cooper, a resident of Pioneer Way, who was charged with killing Mrs. Powell in the course of dangerous driving is on trial in Magistrate’s Court One before Magistrate Franklyn Williams.
Mr. Powell said a car approaching at a high speed hit the taxi-bus on the right side on the driver’s door.
“I heard a bang and I lost my seat. I closed my eyes and we were rolling over and over,” he said. When the vehicle came to a stop, Mr. Powell looked around and took note of everyone, but did not see his wife in the vehicle.
After he managed to get out of the bus he saw his wife hanging on a fence.
He went over to try and assist her but she was already dead, he said.
The trial was adjourned to March 2, 2005
Source: Denise Maycock, The Tribune
