TIMOTHY WRIGHT CRITICALLY INJURED IN CAR CRASH: Incident claims the life of pastor/singer's wife.

TIMOTHY WRIGHT CRITICALLY INJURED IN CAR CRASH: Incident claims the life of pastor/singer's wife.

First Lady Betty Wright, wife of Pastor Timothy Wright, was killed instantly and their grandson, along with Rev. Timothy Wright, was rushed to a hospital in critical condition following an accident late Friday night in Central Pennsylvania.

     They were driving back from a Church of God in Christ conference in Detroit.

     According to a report by Santiago Esparza/The Detroit News, a man driving a 1992 Chevy Corsica was in the wrong lane on eastbound Interstate 80 and hit the Wrights’ 2002 Lincoln Blackwood head on. A 2005 Pontiac Grand AM, it reports, struck the Wright’s Lincoln in the rear.

     The family was on the way home to Roosevelt, N.Y., from a Church of God in Christ conference. Betty Wright, 58, who is also a pastor, died at the scene along with the driver of the Corsica. The article said that a Geiseinger Medical Center spokesman said Wright and his grandson were critically injured.

     Timothy Wright, 61, is a legend in the Gospel music industry with 40 years of performance experience. Choirs at the True Holiness Deliverance Tabernacle in Sanford, Florida sing songs he has written, according to an elder, Carolyn Alexander.

     The Wright family is requesting prayers.

 

<STRONG _extended="true" itxtvisited="1"> <H1 class=head _extended="true" itxtvisited="1">Gospel Singer Timothy Wright Injured; Wife, Grandson Dead in Car Crash <P class=date _extended="true" itxtvisited="1">Sunday, July 06, 2008

<P _extended="true" itxtvisited="1"><IMG class=byline alt="" src="http://www.foxnews.com/images/service_ap_36.gif" _extended="true">LOGANTON, Pa. —  The grandson of a New York gospel singer has become the third person to die following a crash in Pennsylvania involving a wrong-way driver.

<P _extended="true" itxtvisited="1">D.J. Wright, 14, the grandson of the Rev. Timothy Wright, died Saturday evening, a nursing supervisor at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville said Sunday.

<P _extended="true" itxtvisited="1">The Rev. Wright, 61, of Roosevelt, N.Y. remains in critical condition following the crash late Friday that also killed his wife Betty, 58.

<P _extended="true" itxtvisited="1">John Pick, 44, of Lewisburg also died when he drove the wrong-way on eastbound Interstate 80 and struck the Wrights' vehicle head-on.

<P _extended="true" itxtvisited="1">Timothy Wright has released more than a dozen gospel recordings, including "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus," which came out last year. He is the founder and pastor at Grace Tabernacle Christian Center in Brooklyn.

<P _extended="true" itxtvisited="1">New York music agent Will Bogle called the news "completely deflating."

<P _extended="true" itxtvisited="1">"He's been a mentor to me in ways he probably doesn't even know," said Bogle, who represents gospel performer Ricky Dillard. "He's a giving man; I've not seen a person more tangible to his church, to his community, to his friends. Everyone I know is deeply touched and saddened."

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<P _extended="true" itxtvisited="1">The Wrights were returning from a Church of God in Christ conference in Detroit, said Leroy Johnson, a trustee at Grace Tabernacle.

<P _extended="true" itxtvisited="1">The couple has five sons, and the family asked that no other information be released, Johnson said Saturday.

<P _extended="true" itxtvisited="1">A passenger in a third vehicle that struck the Wrights from behind remained in fair condition Sunday, the nursing supervisor said.