Two more people have been killed on the Trelawny section of the North Coast highway. The latest to have died were killed Friday morning (April 15).
This brings to six the number of people killed in traffic crashes in that parish in just over a week.
The latest victims are 35-year-old Oliver Forde, a handyman of Duncans Hill, Trelawny and 59-year-old Phoebe Williamson Daley, of Albion Heights Crescent in Montego Bay, St James.
Reports from the Falmouth Police are that about 12:05 a.m. on Friday, April 15, Forde was driving a Toyota station wagon motor car along the Falmouth bypass towards St. Ann when the vehicle collided with a Nissan Sunny motor car that was traveling in the opposite direction; Williamson Daley was the driver of the Nissan Sunny.
Both sustained multiple injuries and died while being treated at hospital.
Earlier this week, on Monday 23-year-old Lamar Dukie of Aires Avenue in Smokeyvale, St. Andrew was killed in a crash on the Braco main road. He was a passenger in a Toyota Isis motorcar when the driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle and collided into a tree.
In another crash, three people were killed
on Tuesday, April 6, when the car in which they were traveling collided with a tractor trailer on the Falmouth bypass section of the highway. They are: 41-year-old Dwight Sutton of Bounty Hall, 23-year-old Janice Brown and 20-year-old Keno Williams, all of Trelawny.
Police say they are investigating all cases.
