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Barbados Records Third Road Fatality in 2024: Victim Identified as Garfield Thorpe in Adams Collision
Barbados records third road fatality in 2024, victim identified as Garfield Decourtney Thorpe, 63. Collision on the ABC Highway results in death, minor injuries to occupants of two vehicles, investigation ongoing.
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Barbados has recorded its third road fatality for 2024.
The victim has been identified as Garfield Decourtney Thorpe, 63, of Kingsland Terrace, Christ Church.
Police said that around 11:40 Friday night, two vehicles were involved in a collision along the Adams section of the ABC Highway at its junction with Kingsland Road, Christ Church, in the area of the Deighton Griffith Secondary School.
Thorpe, who was the sole occupant in a Daihatsu Terios, died at the scene.
Both the driver and his front seat passenger — a female — in the other vehicle had minor injuries, and were taken by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for medical treatment.
The investigation is ongoing.
