SHANE SU­PERVILLE

Se­nior Re­porter

A 34-year-old hos­pi­tal at­ten­dant be­came the coun­try's lat­est road fa­tal­i­ty af­ter the car he was dri­ving col­lid­ed with a tree off the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way on Sat­ur­day night.

Po­lice said Kendell Cox was dri­ving his sil­ver Nis­san Wingroad near Food Bas­ket at 9:15 pm when he over­took sev­er­al ve­hi­cles in the left lane.

Cox re­port­ed­ly drove on­to a grassy area, lost con­trol, and veered in­to the mid­dle of the road. He hit the me­di­an on the fast lane be­fore crash­ing in­to a tree, up­root­ing it.

Oth­er dri­vers wit­nessed the ac­ci­dent and called the Fire Ser­vice, who re­spond­ed to the scene and used a hy­draulic res­cue tool (like the ‘Jaws of Life’) to re­move Cox.

A Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer ar­rived at the scene and de­clared Cox dead.