By RASHAD ROLLE

Tribune Staff Reporter

rrolle@tribunemedia.net

THREE people died in two car accidents over the weekend –– a middle aged man on Tonique Williams Darling Highway and two men in South Andros.

During a deadly stretch, five people have been killed in accidents since last week Monday and a number of others have been badly injured.

The latest incident happened shortly before 6pm on Saturday. Police said two men were traveling south on Queens Highway, South Andros in a Honda Accord when the driver lost control and collided into the Bank of the Bahamas building. The two men died on the scene.

Picewell Forbes, MP for South Andros, identified the men as Garth Lundy, 31, and Jermaine Miller.

“Garth Lundy helped with his family’s mom and pop shop in Kemp’s Bay and did a little repair work in the community,” he told The Tribune. “Jermaine Miller lived with his cousin Muriel Ash of Smith’s Hill, the oldest surviving resident in my birth settlement. He was employed as a helper and masonry assistant at the Emerald Palm Resort which is being upgraded to the tune of some $5.2 million. What a loss to a depressed community. Due to a lack of opportunity, so many had to relocate. There were some signs of life due to the busy bone fishing season and hotel work, now losing two of our young men.”

The Tribune spoke to Lundy’s sister, who speculated speed played a factor in the crash.

“He was probably speeding,” said Florina Lundy said. “A few persons who saw him said he was speeding. He was heading for my kids. He was supposed to pick them up at 3pm. The time of the accident was almost 6pm. I guess because of the time range he felt he had to make it in a haste so I guess he decided to speed. The car was mine.”

She said her brother was a jolly person.

“Whenever he entered the room there was life,” she said. “He was very outspoken so you would know how he felt from straight up. He don’t bite his words and he can’t be mad for long. We could have an argument right now and a minute later he want talk. We done had so many visit us because he was such a loving person, had so many friends.”

According to police, the man killed on Friday in New Providence was a pedestrian believed to be in his 40s. He was in the northern eastbound lane of Tonique Williams Darling Highway around 9pm when he was struck by a 2013 Hyundai Sonata, police said. The driver of the car remained on the scene and is assisting police with their investigation.

Last week Thursday, Bernard Saunders, 17, was in the rear seat of a car when he was killed after a driver lost control around 3am on Frank Watson Boulevard. Three others were taken to hospital and were said to be in serious but stable condition at last report.

Earlier, a woman was killed last Monday in a hit-and-run accident on Sea Link Drive off East Street South. A man was also injured at the time.