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KINGSTON, Jamaica – A senior police officer has become the latest victim of a two-vehicle smash up that claimed the lives of three other people early on Thursday following the Caribbean Premier league (CPL) cricket match between the Jamaica Tallawahs and Barbados Tridents.
Sergeant Dillon Davis, 47, was returning from the night fixture at Sabina Park, when the accident occurred taking the lives of 18-year-old Theo McKenzie; 29-year-old Tameka Davis, and another man known only as Marvin. Another man has been hospitalised in critical condition.
Senior Superintendent Calvin Allen, head of the Highway and Traffic Division, said human error was again a factor which resulted in the head-on collision.
Police said that their colleague was the lone person in a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) that was hit head on by a vehicle driven by McKenzie with the other two occupants on board. They said he tried to overtake another vehicle, but instead ran head-on into Davis’ SUV.
This is the second deadliest accident here in recent days.
Last weekend, six people were killed when the vehicle in which they were traveling plunged into the Bog Walk Gorge in the central parish of St. Catherine.
The police said the driver, who faces six charges of manslaughter, attempted to beat the traffic light, when the accident occurred.
