Date: Fri 29-Aug-1997

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

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accident-I-84

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Accident Victim Remains In Serious Condition

The driver of a car involved in a two-car accident which killed two men on

August 16 on Interstate 84 was listed in serious condition Thursday morning in

Danbury Hospital.

Daniel M. Askew, 20, of 75 Bedford Avenue, Bridgeport, was the only victim of

the crash who is still hospitalized, a hospital spokesman said.

State police said Mr Askew suffered multiple fracture head trauma.

Two other men who were committed to the hospital after the crash have been

released, the hospital spokesman said. They are Shawn L. Cox, 20, of 36 Hansen

Avenue, Bridgeport, and Hassan K. Porter, 18, of 33 Hanover Street,

Bridgeport.

State police said Mr Cox received a severe leg injury and Mr Porter received

multiple fracture back injuries.

Two men were killed early on the morning of August 16 when a car going the

wrong way on Interstate 84 collided head-on with another car, causing an

explosion and fire.

The accident occurred about 4 am in the eastbound lanes of I-84, in the area

where the highway passes over Hanover Road.

State police theorize that motorist Carlos H. Berrios, 22, of 68 Hoyt Hill

Road, Bethel, who was driving a 1986 Honda coupe, mistakenly got onto the

eastbound lanes of the highway, possibly at Exit 10, and traveled westward

until he collided with Mr Askew who was driving a 1989 Oldsmobile sedan

eastbound.

Berrios was killed in the collision due to multiple blunt force and thermal

injuries.

A passenger in the Oldsmobile, James E. Jennings, Jr, 21, of 91 Butler Avenue,

Bridgeport, also died of multiple blunt force injuries.

State police continue to investigate the accident.