Two separate single-vehicle collisions took the lives of drivers during the last 24 hours.
Cameron resident William Gregson, 22, was pronounced dead after being pulled from the wreckage of his car on Sunday afternoon, following a 4:06 p.m. call to authorities.
According to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, Gregson was travelling south on Lakey Siding Road and swerved across the center line before colliding with an embankment and the treeline. He was alone in the vehicle.
Monday morningâs accident occurred shortly after 7:30 a.m., when a 2008 Chrysler minivan was traveling south of Aberdeen on US 15-501. The driver swerved to the right near an intersection with Heflin Road and ran off the road at a high rate of speed, striking a tree.
Zong, (renamed
Richard of Jamaica), one of 10 ships to have disembarked Africans in Black River from 1781-1791, docked after a long voyage from modern-day Ghana. Seized from the Dutch (as
Zorgue) and sold to a Liverpool syndicate led by William Gregson, the
Zong was captained by Luke Collingwood.
The overcrowded ship with 442 Africans onboard, including 244 already on board when it was seized, left Accra on August 18, 1781, making a stop in Sao Tomé before embarking on the Middle Passage journey on September 6, 1781.
Ten weeks later, it arrived in Tobago, after which it continued on its journey to Black River, but it veered off-course near Haiti, losing time. By then, complaints of water shortage, illness, and death among the crew and poor navigational and leadership decisions all created a level of confusion aboard. Towards the end of November, approximately 62 Africans had died.