Fatal crash in Hanover
Published:Wednesday | December 19, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Investigators assigned to the Hanover Police are probing the circumstances surrounding a fatal crash that claimed the lives of two men and the injury of four others on the Lucea main road in the parish on Tuesday.
The deceased are 22-year-old Roshaad Johnson of Frome and 19-year-old Brandon Parkinson of Orange Hill district, also in Westmoreland.
The police say about 6:00 p.m. Johnson was driving a Toyota Corolla motor car heading towards Montego Bay, St James with five men aboard.
On reaching a section of the roadway, he allegedly lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a wall.
All six persons sustained multiple injuries and were taken to hospital where Johnson and Parkinson were pronounced dead and the others admitted for treatment.
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