The Star (Jamaica)

Two dead in separate St Elizabeth crashes

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Twenty-two-year-old Jaquan Collins, a pump attendant of Top Hill district, St Elizabeth, was killed in a vehicular crash on the Chocolate Hole main road in the parish on Tuesday.

According to the police, about 8 p.m., Collins was driving a Toyota Corolla motor car along the roadway towards Junction, when, on reaching a section of the roadway he allegedly lost control of the motor car, which crashed into a tree.

A day earlier, on Monday, 18-year-old Donville Johnson of

Slipe district in St Elizabeth died of injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle collision along Slipe main road.

Reports are that at 7:20 p.m., Johnson was driving a motorcycle along the roadway when he collided with a cow and lost control of the motorcycle. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

At least 340 persons have been killed on the nation’s roads due to traffic crashes since the start of the year, with 27 of these deaths taking place in St Elizabeth.

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