LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, member of hip-hop R&B group TLC, was killed in a car accident Thursday in Honduras, her record label reported early Friday. She was 30.
The head-on collision on a treacherous two-lane country road occurred shortly before 6 p.m. outside La Ceiba, a town on the Atlantic coast, said Carlos Bakota, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy.
Lopes, who was driving, died instantly, he said.
The singer was one of eight people in the vehicle at the time of the accident. Three members of Egypt, a new band, were taken to Dantoni Hospital in La Ceiba.
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, member of hip-hop R&B group TLC, was killed in a car accident Thursday in Honduras, her record label reported early Friday. She was 30.
The head-on collision on a treacherous two-lane country road occurred shortly before 6 p.m. outside La Ceiba, a town on the Atlantic coast, said Carlos Bakota, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy.
Lopes, who was driving, died instantly, he said.
The singer was one of eight people in the vehicle at the time of the accident. Three members of Egypt, a new band, were taken to Dantoni Hospital in La Ceiba.
She died several years ago in a car accident in South America. Probably 3-4 years ago.
Sweetheart where ya been? Left Eye died in a car crash in the Hunduras like 5 or 6 years ago.
Yes, she was killed in a car accident in Honduras. That VH1 special is about the work she was doing there before she died.
Yes. (May 27, 1971 – April 25, 2002).
Yes, in 2002 while filming in Honduras, I believe, as a result of a vehicular accident.
She died in a car accident in Hondarus (Central America) in April 2002...
In a car accident
She died a few years ago in a car accident.
She died about 6 or 7 years ago in a car crash or something. Where the hell have you been?