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Cop killed in Bustamante Highway crash

Published:Friday | March 24, 2017 | 8:46 AM

A policeman attached to the Spanish Town police station was last evening killed in a car crash along the Bustamante Highway in Clarendon.

The accident happened sometime after 6 o'clock yesterday evening.

It is reported that the cop, who was driving a black infinity motor car, was overtaking a line of traffic and failed to get back in the left lane.

He then collided into a truck, then lost control of the vehicle and slammed into the back of a truck which was parked along the road.

A team from the Clarendon Fire Department had to be called in to cut the cop from the wreckage.

He was then rushed to the May Pen Hospital where he was pronounced dead.