Westmoreland mother and son killed in Bluefields crash laid to rest

Westmoreland mother and son, Angela Samuel and O'Neal Allen, who were among five people killed in a motor vehicle crash in Bluefields last November, are being laid to rest today. 

The service is being held at the Footprints Seventh-day Adventist Church in Savanna-La-Mar.

Samuel, 65, and Allen, 50, who are from Mount Edgecombe in the parish, are being buried together.

On November 13 last year, they died together along with three others while they were on their way home in a public passenger vehicle operated by Delroy Rodney, 47, of a Belmont address in Westmoreland.

Rodney is before the Westmoreland Circuit Court on five counts of causing death by dangerous driving.

He is out on a $7 million bail and will return to court on June 7.

Three of the five victims are already buried.

Janet Thompson, 54, of a McAlpine address was laid to rest on December 30 last year, while Lavecia Forrester, 15, and her mother Petrina Wallace, 39, were buried together on Saturday February 24.

The police report that about 3:30 p.m. on November 13, the five people and another passenger were aboard a grey Toyota Noah being driven by Rodney when the minivan collided with a truck which was travelling in the opposite direction.

- Albert Ferguson 

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