HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC) — A 19-year-old youth appeared in court yesterday charged with the death of a 51-year-old man who was killed after a vehicle ploughed into a tent he was sleeping in over the last weekend.

Police said that Calin Maybury was charged with causing the death of 51-year-old Melvin Smith, a father of three, by driving without due care and attention,

or without reasonable consideration for other persons on the road.

He was also charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Smith’s 44-year-old wife, Dawn.

The couple was asleep in a tent when the vehicle careered off Kindley Field Road, which borders the L F Wade International Airport, on Saturday, the day after the two-day Cup Match public holiday.

The car collided with two parked vehicles before striking the Smiths’ tent, police said.

Camping during Cup Match — which is highlighted by a two-day cricket game between Somerset and St George’s — is popular with many Bermudians who put up tents at various sites around the island.

Smith, who worked as a groundsman at the government-run Port Royal Golf Course, suffered multiple injuries in the smash and had spent four days in the intensive care unit of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

Smith suffered multiple injuries in the accident and died at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

His 44-year-old wife is on a general ward at the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.