Motorcycle crash claims three lives

A motor-vehicle crash involving four persons in Green Island, Hanover, yesterday left a motorcyclist, a mother and her nephew dead and the her son hospitalised in critical condition.

Dead are 39-year-old Yvette Crooks, her seven-year-old nephew, Alrick Rhoden, and the motorcyclist, 22-year-old Lennon Brown, all of Green Island addresses in the parish.

Reports from the Green Island Police are that about 5:15 p.m., Brown was riding a motorcycle towards Negril, Westmoreland. He lost control of the motorcycle, crashing into Crooks, Alrick and her four-year-old son who were walking along the roadway.

Alrick is reported to have died on the spot, while his aunt, his cousin and the motorcyclist were taken to hospital, where Crooks and Brown succumbed to their injuries, and the four-year-old admitted in critical condition.

Up to yesterday afternoon, investigations remained ongoing.