This is the latest information I can find, posted by Detroit print/web media resources:
Gospel legend critically injured in car crash after leaving Detroit conference
Santiago Esparza / The Detroit News
Gospel music great the Rev. Timothy Wright, his wife and their grandson were involved in a crash on a central Pennsylvania interstate Friday night.
The accident killed Wright’s wife, 58-year-old Betty, and left Wright and his 14-year-old grandson, D.J. Wright, with serious injuries. They had just left a religious conference in Detroit, several followers said.
Read more at:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080705/METRO/807050396
And from the Detroit Free Press:
LOGANTON, Pa. — The grandson of a New York gospel singer has become the third person killed in a crash in Pennsylvania involving a wrong-way driver.
D.J. Wright, 14, the grandson of the Rev. Timothy Wright, died Saturday evening, a nursing supervisor at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville said today.
Read more at:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080706/NEWS07/80706025
Written by : Bob Marovich
Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. Founder of Journal of Gospel Music blog (formally The Black Gospel Blog) and producer of the Gospel Memories Radio Show.