TWO FATAL CRASHES WITHIN QUARTER MILE OF EACH OTHER
Three people, including a police corporal, were killed in two separate vehicle crashes within a quarter mile of each other, between Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, in St Ann.
Police have identified two of the victims as 55-year-old Corporal Hampton Russell assigned to the Claremont Police Station and Akeem Fulton of Belair district, Runaway Bay, St. Ann.
(Crash scene photo on the Priory to Llandovery North Coast Highway)
The third victim, in a separate crash, has been identified by police as Olivia Dawkins of Steer Town.
According to the police, in the first crash, reports are that about 8:00 p.m., Corporal Russell was driving his Nissan Lafesta motor car in a westerly direction, toward Runaway Bay, along the Richmond main road with Fulton aboard. On reaching a section of the roadway, near Plantation Smokehouse, the driver of a Toyota Axio motor car which was travelling in the opposite direction allegedly lost control of the vehicle which into the car being driven by the corporal.
Corporal Russell, Fulton, and the driver of the Toyota Axio motor car sustained multiple injuries and were taken to hospital where Corporal Russell and Fulton died while being treated. The driver of the Toyota Axio motor car was admitted in critical condition.
In the second crash, leading to a third fatality on the North Coast Highway, near Richmond, reports to the North Coast Times are that at about 1:30 Christmas morning there was a head-on collision between a Toyota Tercel and Nissan Impresa, near Chukka Cove. That is less than a quarter mile from where the earlier fatal crash took place.
At least five people were taken to hospital where Olivia Dawkins was pronounced dead. (Another name had been given earlier but the CCU identified the person who died as Olivia Dawkins, of Steer Town, St Ann).
Police said they were searching for the driver and passengers of the Impresa who fled the scene.
A scene of grief at the St Ann’s Bay Hospital following the first fatal crash
