Five persons died tragically in a two-vehicle collision along the Osbourne Store main road in Clarendon Monday, while three were hospitalised; two in serious condition.
Those killed are: James Stanley of Reading, St. James; his 18-year-old granddaughter, Dadrian Patterson of East Kirkland Heights, St. Andrew; Lola Dwyer and her son Andel Smith of Spanish Town, St. Catherine, reports the Jamaica Gleaner.
The fifth person, a woman, was not identified up to press time.
The injured have been identified as Dionette Dwyer-Chin of Spanish Town, Paul McBean and Jermaine McBean, both of Glen Drive, Kingston.
According to Corporal Llewelyn Wynter of the Four Paths Police Station, shortly after 8am Monday a rented motor car driven by Mr. Stanley with his granddaughter and the unidentified female passenger, was travelling in an easterly direction from Mandeville. Stanley overtook a line of traffic along the Osbourne Store main road and collided with a Nissan Vannette van, which was travelling in the opposite direction with five persons aboard including Dwyer-Chin, who was driving.
The collision claimed five lives on the spot.
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