Tashieka Mair, Gleaner Writer

This mangled Toyota Corolla motor car is the vehicle in which Demar Morris and Kerry-Gaye Herron lost their lives after a two-vehicle collision yesterday along the Unity Hall main road in St. James. - Photos by Tashieka Mair

WESTERN BUREAU:

The Montego Bay police are calling on persons to exercise caution when using the island's roadways after a policeman and two civilians lost their lives in a motor vehicle crash along the Unity Hall main road in St. James yesterday.

Constable Lushington Wright, 38, of the Cambridge police, was killed after the white Toyota Corolla sedan he was driving towards Hanover collided with a grey Toyota Corolla motor car being driven by 23-year-old Demar Morris of Piggott Street, Mount Salem, in St. James.

Morris and a female passenger, 19-year-old employee of ACS, Kerry-Gaye Herron, of Hopewell, Hanover, also died on the spot. They were heading towards Montego Bay.

When The Gleaner arrived on the scene, there was a pile-up of traffic; a wrecker was seen removing the two mangled cars while the St. James Fire Department washed the mixture of blood, grease and parts of the vehicles from the roadway.

Reports vague

The circumstances under which the three were killed are vague; according to reports, at approximately 10:00 a.m. yesterday, the policeman was travelling towards Hanover while the other two victims were travelling towards St. James when they collided on the right side of the road, facing Hanover.

This brings to 25 the number of fatal accidents recorded in St. James since the start of the year.

Constable Wright, who was born in Lacovia, St. Elizabeth, joined the Jamaica Constabulary Force in 1987. He was stationed in St. James since 2005.

Members of the St. James Fire Department wash blood and grease from the roadway after yesterday's fatal motor vehicle accident along the Unity Hall main road, in St. James, in which three persons, including a policeman, died.