A 70-year-old man was killed Wednesday afternoon when his car was struck by a vehicle driven by a tourist on Queen Mary Highway.
Abraham Samuels of Barren Spot was driving east on Queen Mary Highway when his Mercury Tracer was struck by a Jeep making a left-hand turn from the westbound lane at the Concordia intersection.
The iimpact sent Samuel’s vehicle 200 feet down the road, where it hit a parked taxi-bus.
Police and emergency crews had to pull Samuels from his wrecked car before he was transported to Juan F. Luis Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at approximately 2 p.m.
The occupants of the other vehicle were not seriously injured.
Samuels' death is the second auto fatality on St. Croix in recent weeks. On April 6, 69-year-old James Henry was killed when his compact car was struck by a dump truck near the St. Croix Container Port. Henry, of Sion Farm, was killed at approximately 6:45 a.m. when the truck collided with his Chevrolet Sprint after he made a right turn out of Gate 2 at the HOVENSA refinery. The truck dragged the Sprint 250 feet into a lightpole.
Henry was ejected from the vehicle and died on the spot. The driver of the truck was uninjured.
