WESTERN BUREAU:

One man is dead and another has been hospitalised following a motor vehicle crash along the Bluefield main road in Westmoreland this evening.

The deceased has been identified as 25-year-old Michael Blackwood.

Some time after 6:20 p.m., Blackwood was a passenger in a grey Toyota Corolla motorcar that was travelling from the direction of Whitehouse, Westmoreland.

While negotiating a corner, the driver lost control of the vehicle, which veered off the road before slamming into a concrete utility pole, police reports say. 

Blackwood died on the scene, and his body was removed to the morgue four hours later.

The driver was transported to the Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital where he was admitted in critical condition.

- Christopher Thomas

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