UPDATE | Police identify three killed in Brunswick Avenue taxi-truck crash
Published:Sunday | September 8, 2024 | 8:56 AM
The police have identified the three victims of Saturday's fatal taxi-truck crash on Brunswick Avenue, St Catherine.
They are 73-year-old taxi operator Cecil Kemp of Thompson Pen, Patsy Bagaloo-Gaynor of Wynter's Pen, and 17-year-old student Jamilia Wallace of Bendon District in Kitson Town, all communities in the parish.
The police report that about 3:30 p.m., Kemp was driving the 2011 Nissan AD Wagon with Bagaloo-Gaynor and Wallace aboard when it rear-ended the International truck that had stopped at a traffic light near McCoy's Land.
Kemp and Bagaloo-Gaynor died on the spot, while Wallace succumbed to her injuries at the Spanish Town Hospital.
The St Catherine North Traffic Department is investigating.
The crash occurred less than 24 hours after firefighter Shahine Nelson died in collision in the Brunswick Avenue area.
- Rasbert Turner
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