Western Bureau: The 37 year-old Hanover electrician, Curtis Archibald, who was slapped with a charge of manslaughter after he hit a 12 year-old boy with his Lada motor car along the Rose Hall main road last Friday, was this week granted bail in the sum of $100,000.

The bail offer was made by judge Wilson Smith in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court when the electrician made his first court appearance Wednesday.

It was about 2:30 pm last Friday when the accident happened.

Archibald was reportedly driving his red Lada along the Rose Hall main road when, on reaching the vicinity of the Rose Hall Beach Club, he swerved to the left side of the road to avoid hitting the back of the car in front of him.

But in doing so he ended up hitting 12 year-old Lilliput resident, Oshane Dennie.

The little boy died on the spot while Archibald turned himself over to the police and was later charged with manslaughter.

Dennie was the 12th traffic fatality in St James since the start of the year.

In court Wednesday, attorney George Thomas, who represented Archibald in the absence of his attorney Clive Mullings, did not refute the allegations as read by the clerk-of-court.

He, however, made a bail application on Archibald’s behalf in Mullings’ absence and it was granted.

Archibald is to reappear before the court on May 28.