WESTERN BUREAU – A Trelawny woman, Vivienne Henry was killed early yesterday when her car, in which her two daughters were also travelling, developed a skid and slammed into a tree along the Rose Hall main road in Montego Bay.

The girls, aged 23 months and 12 years old, survived the accident, which occurred while they were travelling in the back of Henry’s 1996 Toyota Corolla, registered 7889 DS.

Up to yesterday afternoon, the girls were listed in serious but stable condition at the Cornwall Regional Hospital where they were taken for treatment and where their mother was officially pronounced dead.

Henry, a 38 year-old employee at Montego Bay Freeport, died as a result of internal injuries to her chest and head.

The police reported that at about 7:30 am yesterday, the Wiltshire Heights resident was driving along the Rose Hall main road toward Montego Bay when her vehicle reportedly developed a skid and ran into a tree in the vicinity of the Wyndham Rose Hall Hotel.

The force of the impact trapped Henry between the steering wheel and the driver’s seat, the police’s accident reconstruction unit said yesterday. Firefighters who arrived at the accident scene had to cut her from the vehicle.

Henry’s death brings to six, the number of traffic fatalities in St James since the start of the year.

Just last Tuesday, two men died from a two-car collision along the Long Bay main road in St James. That accident left three other persons nursing serious injuries.