.jpg)
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.
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.