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Woman dies after being hit by car in St James

Published:Monday | June 6, 2022 | 9:39 AM
She sustained multiple injuries and was rushed to the Cornwall Regional hospital where she was pronounced dead.

A woman died after being hit along the Rose Hall main road in St James early this morning.

The deceased has been identified as Angella Summerville-Palmer of a Flower Hill address in the parish.

The police report that about 2:30 a.m., the woman was standing along the roadway in the Coral Gardens area when the driver of a Toyota Mark X motor car, who was heading from the direction of Falmouth, lost control of the vehicle and hit Summerville-Palmer.

She sustained multiple injuries and was rushed to the Cornwall Regional hospital where she was pronounced dead.

She is the fifth person to be killed in a motor vehicle accident across Western Jamaica over the past 48 hours. 

- Hopeton Bucknor.

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