Fatal road crash victim named

Monday 23rd August 2010, 3:00PM BST.

Crash scene at Hautes Croix.

Crash scene at Hautes Croix.

A MOTHER was killed and her three young children seriously injured in a road crash in St John yesterday.

The 34-year-old woman died in hospital hours after her car crashed into a granite wall at the Hautes Croix junction just before 3 pm. She has been named as Maria Sousa Pestana.

A 22-year-old female passenger, who was travelling in a silver Daihatsu, and the children – two boys aged 12 and  ten years old, and an eight-year-old girl – are currently being treated in hospital for serious injuries.

• See Monday’s JEP for full story.


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