SIX persons were injured and one killed during a two-car motor vehicle accident in Montego Bay Sunday morning.

The dead person is Sandy Williams, a telephone operator employed to the western city’s upscale Half Moon Hotel.

One man who arrived on the scene shortly after the accident occurred described the gruesome sight.

“I saw a lady coming out of the white Nissan Sunny and her foot chop up, chop up and they come and pull out the driver out of the car,” said Romaine Bingham, who was on his way to work when he came across the accident.

“There were about three guys in the Corolla and they all had injuries. One had injuries to his head; one, him face bus’ up, and there was a lotta blood in the car. Some people stop and pull them out. There was one man wid him face mash up, all part a him mash up.”

Williams, who lived on Barnett Street in Montego Bay, received head and chest injuries and died at the Cornwall Regional Hospital.

“From observations made and investigations carried out so far and also information received, a white Sunny Nissan motor car was using the slip road to go onto Whitehouse and a blue Toyota Corolla was coming from Montego Bay, heading towards Rose Hall along the Flankers main road,” said Constable Hopeton Cole.

The constable, who is assigned to Area One’s Highway Patrol, was speaking with the Observer on Sunday, shortly after the accident occurred.

“The white Nissan Sunny was trying to get across onto the Whitehouse main road when the blue Toyota Corolla collided with it, pushing it onto the left hand side on this island here,” the constable said, pointing to the spot.

“Extensive damage was done to both vehicles and from information received, occupants of both vehicles were seriously injured and taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital,” the constable added.

The driver of the 1992 Nissan Sunny, Winston Leslie of Hague, Trelawny, received an injury to his left eye, and suffered eight broken ribs on his left side.

The other five persons injured were travelling in the blue 1993 Toyota Corolla but there were no reports of injuries suffered by the driver, 27 year-old Andrew Sloley, a taxi operator of Glendevon.

The accident took place at about 8:15 am and up until minutes after 11:00 Sunday morning, police officers were still on the scene, trying to reconstruct the accident and figure out what happened. There is a possibility that one or both drivers could face charges at a later date.

“Both drivers were served with the warning notice. That means, after the investigations are completed on the vehicles to see if they were road-worthy and based on the investigations, one or both of them can be charged,” said the Constabulary Communication Network officer for St James, Lancelot Tyrell.

“They could be charged with dangerous or reckless driving in addition to manslaughter. The time frame depends on the investigation and how expeditiously the examiner examines the vehicle,” he said.