Dalton Laing, Gleaner Writer

Two persons are dead and seven others nursing injuries after a two-car accident along the Petersfield main road in Westmoreland about 11:40 Saturday night.

Twenty-year-old Carey Dawes, of Burnt Savannah, Westmoreland, was pronounced dead at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital as a result of injuries to his head and chest when he was thrown from a Toyota Sprinter involved in the crash.

Lisa Leslie, 18, of Three Miles River, also in Westmoreland, died while undergoing treatment at the hospital. She would have celebrated her 19th birthday next Saturday.