SALEM CRASH LEFT OCCUPANTS PINNED IN VEHICLE
(UPDATED STORY)
(Michael Kitson, described as a hard worker and pleasant person)
A man died in the three-vehicle crash, involving a truck and two cars, on the Salem-Runaway Bay main road Friday morning.
Dead is 26-year-old electrician Michael Kitson of Mines district, about six miles from where the crash occurred.
On Friday morning, November 3, North Coast Times reported on the crash but could not confirm a death that was reported at the time.
The police have confirmed the report.
(As people tried to pull occupants from the car, an extinguisher was used to put out a fire)
Reports are that about 6:30 a.m., Kitson was travelling east, on the Runaway Bay Salem main road. Police reports say the vehicle he was driving, a white Toyota Corolla, was overtaking a line of traffic. A Hi-Pro truck was travelling in the opposite direction. Kitson reportedly tried to re-enter the line of traffic and hit another car before he lost control of the vehicle that ran into the path of the truck.
(Driver on the steps of the truck where it came to a stop on the sidewalk)
The truck driver tried to avoid a collision and took to the sidewalk in front of a supermarket before the car ran under the front of the truck. The occupants of the car were pinned in the vehicle.
Several area residents tried to remove the occupants but one could not be removed. Meantime, efforts were made to use buckets of sand to put out a fire that had started in the Corolla. An extinguisher was used to put out the fire.
Firefighters from the St Ann’s Bay station cut away portions of the vehicle and removed the occupant who was pinned in it.
Police said Kitson and his three passengers were taken to hospital where he died and the others were admitted for treatment. One was released.
People who knew Kitson told the North Coast Times that he was a hardworking young man who always had a smile.
Watch as area residents and motorists try to help:
