'BAD GIRL' COURTNEY LOVE TURNS GOOD SAMARITAN

CALGARY (Reuters) - Courtney Love was being hailed as a Good Samaritan Friday after rock's bad girl and her band Hole came to the aid of three car-accident victims on a stretch of highway in western Canada.

The rock star and actress was on the road with her entourage Thursday to headline an alternative rock festival in Calgary when a car in front their two tour buses rolled over on the Trans-Canada Highway just east of the city.

Love, widow of grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain, was first on the scene to provide first aid and comfort to a woman, four months pregnant with twins, and her mother. Both women were slightly injured in the accident. The pregnant woman's husband, who was driving the car, was not injured.

"The first bus had Courtney in it and the second bus had her band in it. She got out of the bus and she assisted people getting out of their vehicle because it landed on the highway on its side," Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Daryl Bedard said Friday.

"She then brought them on to her bus and offered them first aid and gave them some warm tea."

The pregnant woman, Darlene Rogers, 28, and her mother Diane Covil, both of Regina, Saskatchewan, were treated in hospital at nearby Strathmore, Alberta, and released.

The driver, Christopher Rogers, 26, told the Calgary Herald newspaper he and his family owed the hard rockers "a warm thank you".

Love and Hole were en route to Calgary from Winnipeg and were slated to appear Friday as the headline act for the Canadian traveling alternative rock festival Edgefest.

"I didn't know who she was at the beginning of our dealings when I was first talking to her," Bedard said. "I must say that she and her whole band, her whole entourage, were really down to earth and very concerned and very helpful."


- E! On-line, Friday, July 9, 1999


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