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Chef killed in vehicular crash

Published:Sunday | February 19, 2023 | 12:23 PM
Brown was reportedly driving a Toyota Starlet motor car about 6:30 p.m., Saturday, when he lost control of the vehicle in the vicinity of the Bahia Principe hotel in Runaway Bay. - File photo

The Runaway Bay police in St Ann are investigating  a motor vehicle collision, which has resulted in the death of a man.

He is Omaine Brown, a 25-year-old chef, of Hopewell Park, Discovery Bay in St Ann.

Brown was reportedly driving a Toyota Starlet motor car about 6:30 p.m., Saturday, when he lost control of the vehicle in the vicinity of the Bahia Principe hotel in Runaway Bay.

The car crashed into a concrete utility pole.

An injured Brown was rushed to the St Ann's Bay Hospital where he died.

-Rasbert Turner

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