An elderly man was hit and killed by a motorcar while walking along a roadway in St. Catherine on Monday night.
The deceased man has been identified as 75-year-old Dennis Campbell. Campbell, who was unemployed, resided at 95 St. John’s Road in Spanish Town, where the accident occurred.
According to reports, he was walking along the roadway at about 8:40 p.m. when he was hit by a 2017 Toyota Succeed motor car upon reaching the vicinity of 101 St. Johns Road. Campbell sustained serious injuries during the accident and was pronounced dead after being transported to the Spanish Town Hospital.
Reports state that the driver of the Toyota motor car, a 33-year-old, was warned for prosecution. The probe into the fatal accident is being led by the Spanish Town traffic department.
Up to Sunday, there had been 310 fatalities recorded on Jamaica’s roads, a 5% increase when compared to the 297 recorded over the same period in 2024. Dr Lucian Jones, the vice-chairman of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC), has described the current road fatality figures as alarming.
Dr Jones also highlighted that there has been a spike in road deaths over the past few months.
“For this year, we have seen where we have gone from minus figures in January, February, March, April, and May to a 30% increase in June and a 90% increase in July in road deaths,” Jones said while speaking with The Jamaica Observer.
