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Serious Accident, But No One Seriously Hurt
posted (January 17, 2013)
Tonight, 3 women are very fortunate to have escaped fatal injuries after they were involved in a major traffic accident on Queen Charlotte Street, near the Yarborough Bridge.

Sometime after midnight last night, the women were travelling in a grey Mazda Tribute SUV from the direction of Albert Street, when the driver lost control and slammed into a parked van.

The accident didn't finish there because the vehicle was moving at a such a speed that it careened toward another parked van, which then caused it to flip over.

We found the vehicle mashed up and in the middle of the road this morning. An eyewitness described to us what he saw:

Roy Garbutt, Eyewitness
"The vehicles were coming from Albert Street area and it looks like the vehicle went airborne and just slammed into this vehicle right here and it ricochets on the first vehicle and it hit that one over there. The two young ladies came out of the vehicle and one of them fell on the ground. This vehicle was parked there; it belongs to the home owner there. Obviously it's one vehicle that caused the accident. It's one vehicle that was coming ran off the street and hit the other vehicle. They were kind of depressed because their friend was lying on the ground and they were shook up - they were hurt pretty bad. The young lady on the ground keeping in and out of consciousness, she came back 3 times - she fainted and come back again."

As you heard in the interview, one of the women received the most injuries. We have confirmed with police that she is 19 year-old Amber Pitts.

She is at the KHMH recovering from those injuries.

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