FREEPORT, Grand Bahama – The holiday weekend on Grand Bahama was marred by tragedy with the traffic death of a 65-year-old Freeport woman.
The accident was one of a series of incidents that kept police busy this weekend including a spate of stabbings that occurred at the Feel the Rush Junkanoo parade in downtown Freeport Sunday night.
According to police, Oslie Delancy of Seahorse Village became the island’s eleventh traffic fatality for the year when the vehicle she was driving collided with a jeep at the intersection of East Sunrise Highway and Waterfall Drive at around 8:27p.m. Saturday.
It was the latest fatal traffic accident to occur on the main thoroughfare in several weeks.
Authorities said Hesley Pinder, 57 was driving a 1988 gold Jeep Cherokee west on East Sunrise and Delancy, who was driving a 1997 Nissan Sentra, was traveling south onto Waterfall Drive which leads into Seahorse Village when the collision occurred.
When the Bahama Journal arrived on the scene shortly after the accident a large crowd had gathered, heavy traffic was being diverted and traffic police were carrying out their investigations into the crash.
The female driver sustained serious injuries and was transported to the Rand Memorial Hospital where police said she succumbed to her injuries at 9:30 p.m.
Meantime, about 24 hours after that incident police on the island had their hands full investigating a number of stabbings and arresting a number of persons for various offences at the Feel The Rush Junkanoo competition.
Authorities said three young men were stabbed in separate altercations at the parade, and another was hit in the head with an object during a confrontation with another male.
The young men were between 15 and 19 years old, police said.
The three stabbing victims were all detained at the Rand Memorial Hospital in guarded condition, and at approximately 4am hospital officials said there were five stabbing victims from the parade receiving emergency treatment.
Police also said a number of persons were arrested at the Junkanoo parade for cases of attempted stealing, fighting, obscene language and unlawfully carrying arms.
Formal charges are expected to be levied against a number of those persons arrested at the event.
By: Sharon Williams, The Bahama Journal
