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Left to right: Christine van der Linde, club secretary; GB Road Traffic Deputy Controller Basil V Rahming; award recipient Keith Cooper; club president Philip Gaitor; GB Traffic Police chief ASP Kenwood Taylor; and John R Fraser, GB Road Safety Committee co-chairman.
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Freeport, Bahamas - During the weekly luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of Lucaya on
Tuesday afternoon at the Ruby Swiss Restaurant, taxi driver Keith Cooper
of Deadman's Reef received the " Most Courteous Driver of the Quarter
Award for March 2013".
On Friday 15th March 2013 around 8:10am, a female resident of West Grand
Bahama, was driving her champagne Honda Accord east along the Warren J
Levarity Highway, on her way to work in Freeport.
As she got in the vicinity of Bahama Rock Company, the left front tyre
on her vehicle suddenly blew out, causing her to lose control of the
vehicle and veer off the road onto the northern grass verge, finally
coming to a stop on an embankment without causing further damage.
About fifteen minutes later, Mr Keith Cooper of Deadman's Reef, who was
also headed into Freeport in his truck, noticed the driver in distress
and pulled over to render assistance.
He changed the tyre on the lady's vehicle, thereby enabling her to continue on her way into Freeport.
As a result of his considerate action towards a fellow motorist in
distress, Mr Cooper was selected as " the Most Courteous Driver of the
Quarter-March 2013."
He was presented with an inscribed mahogany plaque along with a gift certificate for a full tank of gasoline.
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