Philipsburg: --- The editor in chief of the Daily Herald Newspaper Courtney Gibson was thrown into sudden mourning over the weekend. Gibson who is presently off island attending his son’s wedding is now mourning the loss of three of his relatives who perished in car accident in Bryan County Georgia. In addition, nursing injuries are three young children.
According to information, reaching SMN News is that the family was on their way to attend the wedding celebration of Gibson’s son.
Below is the scene of the accident taken from Savannahnow.com.
4 killed in wrong-way crash on I-95 in Bryan County.
RICHMOND HILL - Four people were killed and three children were injured early Saturday morning in a head-on collision involving a minivan and a pickup that was going the wrong way on Interstate 95 in Richmond Hill.
Michael Delph, 28, of Phenix City, Ala., was driving his Chevrolet S-10 truck north in the center lane against traffic in the southbound lanes when he collided with a 2001 Mazda MPV minivan, according to the Georgia State Patrol. The collision occurred about 6:30 a.m. nearly two miles south of the U.S. 17 exit on I-95.
Trooper Chris Cuddington said Delph was killed in the wreck. Also killed was the minivan's driver, identified as Michelle Carryl, 41, of Apopka, Fla.
Two passengers in the minivan also died. They were identified as Dwight Spencer, 19, also of Apopka, and Cyril Millington, 59, of Queens, N.Y., the trooper said.
Carryl's children - a 15-year-old boy and two girls, ages 9 and 13 - were taken to Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah - one by helicopter and two by ambulance. They were expected to survive their injuries, Cuddington said.
Although it was still early in the investigation, Cuddington said early Saturday afternoon that "alcohol is going to be a factor."
He added that there were open containers of alcoholic beverages inside the pickup.
All six occupants of the minivan were wearing seat belts at the time of the accident, Cuddington said.
Delph, the pickup driver, was not wearing the safety device, the trooper said.
The crash shut down a roughly 10-mile stretch of the southbound interstate for much of Saturday morning as state troopers and Bryan County authorities picked through the mangled wreckage.
All southbound traffic was detoured south onto U.S. 17, through Midway, until about 11:30 a.m.
"I sold a lot of maps," said Anil Patel, a clerk at El Cheapo, the first fuel stop that rerouted motorists encountered off I-95. "A lot of people were confused on how to get to Florida. But the policemen did a good job of (traffic) control."
By early afternoon, Patel said, "it's quiet now - we were busy before the road opened."
The sudden swell of travelers on the smaller thoroughfare also meant more trash than usual.
"They were all overloaded," Herbert Button said of the trash bins he is paid to replace at convenience stores and fast-food places along that stretch of highway.
At a small crossroads in Midway, where the traffic turned east toward I-95, nearby resident JoeEtta Williams said that on an inconvenience scale of 1 to 10, Saturday morning was "about a 7."
"Thank goodness there's a traffic light here," she said.