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| One of the vehicles which were badly damaged in a fatal multi-unit crash on the PJ Patterson leg of the toll highway in St Catherine, near the Old Harbour turn-off, on Sunday. |
A 55-year-old man is dead and several other persons injured following another multi-vehicle crash that took place on Sunday, this time along the Vineyard’s leg of the toll road, near the Old Harbour turn-off.
Reports are that about 9:45 p.m., a motorist was travelling along the highway when he reportedly made an abrupt stop in the middle of the roadway.
Other vehicles that was being driven behind ended up colliding in the vehicle that had stopped in the road and others that had hit it.
Reports are that while group of persons gathered at the accident scene, another vehicle being driven on the busy road struck down several of the onlookers. They were rushed to hospital, where the 55-year-old man was pronounced dead.
The crash came only hours after a woman was killed in another multi-vehicle bang-up on Mandela Highway.
In that incident earlier on Sunday, a motorist lost control of his vehicle, which collided with a truck and three other vehicles, including a hearse. The five vehicles were damaged in the incident.
Arising from the crash, five people were taken to hospital, where one of the victims, a female, was pronounced dead. The identity of the woman has not yet been released.
Forty eight hours before that incident, another multi-vehicle collision took place along Mandela Highway, resulting in 10 persons sustaining injury.
A total of eight vehicles were damaged in that crash, with no reported fatality in that incident.
Clarendon cabbie almost beheaded in love triangle gone awfully sour
A Clarendon taxi operator lost his life on Saturday after being allegedly attacked and almost beheaded by another man in St Catherine in a love triangle that ticked off at the home of the woman between then.
Police reports are that Clarence Clarke of a Clarendon address was chopped to death by Alvin Messam, otherwise called ‘Kevin’, a 35-year-old construction worker of Spanish Town, St Catherine.
Reports are that Clarke went to visit his girlfriend, so far identified only as ‘Kerry-Ann’, who resides in the White Water Housing Scheme just outside Spanish Town in St Catherine.
Whilst inside the house, Messam, who is the father of Kerry-Ann’s child, visited the home around 9:00 p.m., and verbal fireworks immediately erupted between the two men.
The heated argument led to a physical fight between them.
Clarke eventually left the house and while walking along the roadway, Messam reportedly used a machete to chop him, partially severing his head.
Clarke was taken to the Spanish Town Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The Spanish Town police are investigating the matter.
Further are expected in relation to the incident.
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