By Erica James-King, Staff ReporterWESTERN BUREAU:
HANOVER ON Sunday suffered its third road fatality in three days, and the hospitalisation of five persons for serious injuries sustained as a result of motor vehicle accidents over the same period.
Expressing concern over the "high" death and injury rate in Hanover over the last few days, the police are blaming speeding on sections of the North Coast Highway, as being the main factor behind this trend.
Two men had their lives snuffed out and three others were injured in a motor vehicle collision on the Orange Bay section of the North Coast Highway on Sunday.
Dead are Horace Kangol, 32, and Joe Hill, 34, both of Bath district, Westmoreland. Injured are Andrew Morgan, 24; Glenford Gayle, 38; and Ransford Barran, 34, all of Westmoreland addresses.
Reports are that at about 1:30 on Sunday morning, Kangol was driving a Toyota motorcar along the Orange Bay main road with Hill aboard when his vehicle collided with a Nissan Urvan minibus, which was being driven by Gayle.
Five persons in both vehicles sustained injuries; Kangol and Hill died at the scene. The others were taken to hospital where they were admitted in serious condition. Death had similarly stalked the Sandy Bay end of the North Coast Highway just three days earlier.
A three-vehicle collision along the Mosquito Cove main road in Sandy Bay, resulted in the death of a pregnant woman and the injury of two others.
Camika Hunter, 23, of Haughton Gardens, Lucea, lost her life in that traffic mishap, while driver Lanceseale Reid, 52, and Fabian Reid, both of the same address have been admitted to the Noel Holmes hospital in serious condition.
Reports are that at about 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, three vehicles were travelling in the direction of Lucea, when on reaching Mosquito Cove, a garbage truck being driven by Euken Taylor, 58, got out of control and slammed into a Daihatsu motor car. The car then reportedly mowed into the rear of a tour bus. Everyone in the car sustained injury and were taken to hospital, where Hunter succumbed to hers.
The Hanover police are appealing to motorists using the North Coast Highway to exercise more caution on the roads.
Noting that the figure of four deaths in Hanover since the start of the year was higher than for the corresponding period last year, Sergeant Dowton Martin of the Hanover police said, "We are seeing far too much speeding on sections of the highway where there should be no speeding, and there is definitely a need for motorists to be more careful."
