Youth dies in car accident

AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD died in a smash-up at the junction of Amity Lodge and Rendezvous Road, Christ Church, early yesterday morning.
Xavier Mansour, of Blue Waters, Rockley, Christ Church,  is the second person to die on the island’s roads for the year.
According to a police report, Mansour was driving a car that was involved in a collision with another driven by Franco Diamanti, 45, of Simmons Land, Christ Church.
The Barbados Fire Service officers used the “jaws of life” to free Mansour from the wreck after the accident which occurred around 1:45 a.m.