A St Ann nurse and a security guard were killed in a crash last week in Trelawny as they returned from a mission to recover a car she owned but could not drive.
Dead are: 25-year-old nurse, Twayna McLennon of Orange Hill, near Brown’s Town and 26-year-old security officer, Rohan Williams of Bethany, both in St Ann.
How the nurse came to be killed and Williams with her is a story of perseverance of a woman who with her family had worked hard to change her life. The car was an extension of that as, for her, the Mitsubishi Lancer was an investment.
Investigations by the North Coast Times shows that Ms McLennon was a part of a large, hard working family that grew up in Philadelphia, St Ann where her father still lives. She later moved to Orange Hill, near Brown’s Town where she lived with her mother.
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She bought the car as part of her quest to earn and save more. For her, friends say, it was not a status symbol but something that would help her earn. She couldn’t drive and though she had different people giving her lessons, when time afforded, she still did not have her driver’s licence.
The car had been used as a taxi but there were several issues with the running and viability of the business. Months ago Ms McLennon took back the taxi off the road. Reports were that for a short time it was in the care of her boyfriend.
When their relationship ended, the man decided to go back to Montego Bay where he was from and she went back to Orange Hill, near her mother. Early last week, Nurse McLennon reportedly loaned the car to her ex to move his things to Montego Bay, St James and told relatives that she was having difficulties getting the car back to Orange Hill. She was told that she could come and get her car, last Friday, March 31.
Because she couldn’t drive, she asked Mr Williams to accompany her and drive the car back. He was not a regular driver. Friday was his day off from security duties and he accompanied her.
The crash that killed them happened on their way back. The police say about 7:30 Friday, the car overtook a line of traffic along a section of the Harmony Hall roadway near Duncans, Trelawny and crashed into a Subaru Legacy being driven from St Ann, going west. At least two drivers reportedly told police at the crash scene that they had seen the Mitsubishi car speeding along the roadway and had been overtaken by it. Police did not name the driver of the Subaru but said he was treated and released from hospital. Williams and McLennon were pronounced dead at hospital.
The news started to get back to St Ann late that night after midnight and shocked many, some first saying that they thought it was an early April Fools’ Day (Saturday) joke. But visits to the Brown’s Town police would later confirm the crash. Nurse McLennon’s mother was hospitalized for shock Saturday.
Ms McLennon died leaving two children.
A friend of the family who knew Twayna McLennon for years, Antoinette Tucker said she was “Loving, caring persons. Fun to be with.” Ms Tucker said she knew the family well and that when she went to the Brown’s Town Clinic where Ms McLennon once worked she did everything to help her and to make the patients comfortable. “She will be missed,” Tucker said.
