KINGSTON, Jamaica – Three men died Thursday after each was hit by a motor vehicle in separate incidents in the western end of the island.

The first of the three occurred about 6:30 pm along the Bamboo Spring main road in Trelawny, according to police reports. Seventy-two-year-old Gladston Brown, a retired farmer of Ulster Spring in the parish, allegedly fell from an embankment and into the path of a truck. He sustained multiple injuries from the impact and was taken to hospital where he died.

The second man, 24-year-old Ryan Earle, of Morass Road in Whithorn, Westmoreland, was hit by a motorcar while walking along the roadway about 9:30pm. Residents assisted Earle to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

About 10:10pm the Black River Police received reports that 33-year-old Orrett Samuels, a farmer of Vineyard district near Black River, St Elizabeth was hit by a motorcycle along High Street in the parish capital.

He, along with the rider of a motorcycle involved in the crash, sustained injuries and were taken to hospital where Samuels succumbed. The motorcyclist was admitted in a stable condition.