SPRING ROAD, Trelawny — Three people were killed and another hospitalised after the car in which they were travelling collided with a garbage truck along Spring Road in Trelawny at about 2:00 pm yesterday.

Dead are:

* Florentina Hall, a resident of Jackson Town, Trelawny and employee of Starfish Resort;

* David Seaton who lived in the Carey Park section of the parish. He was an employee of Western Parks and Market and was driving the truck at the time of the accident;

* as well as a St Ann man known only as “Prentice”, a vendor of religious books.

Barrington Waldo, the driver of the car that was smashed into large chunks of metal as a result of the impact with the truck, was admitted to the Cornwall Regional Hospital after being transferred from a hospital in Falmouth. He is said to be in critical condition.

An eyewitness told the Observer that the Toyota Corolla was heading towards Falmouth and attempted to overtake a line of traffic when the approaching truck driver swerved to the soft shoulder to avoid a collision. The car got out of control and skidded into the path of the truck, witnesses said.

Hall, Seaton and Prentice were killed on the spot while Waldo had to be cut from the car and taken to receive medical treatment.

Locksley Hall, Florentina’s distraught husband, was overcome with grief. He first had an inkling that something was wrong when he received a call, asking if his wife had already left for work.

” I became anxious and called her work place only to be told that she was in an accident, and that she was dead. She is gone leaving me with five kids,” he moaned.

The accident happened in proximity to where national footballer Stephen ” Shorty” Malcolm died in a traffic mishap in January 2001. The Duncans Police are investigating.