RAMON Davis, 20, of Walks Lane in Orange Bay, Portland, was killed yesterday morning when a garbage truck ran over him on the Orange Bay main road in the parish.

The Port Antonio Police Traffic Department reported that about 4:15 am Davis was allegedly lying in the road when a garbage truck drove over him and dragged him along for several feet. He died on the spot.

Members of the Police Area Two Technical Services Division processed the scene and the body was removed to the morgue.

The driver of the truck was breathalysed and issued with a warning. The truck was later seized.

Davis, who resided as Wharf Road in the parish, was alleged to be of unsound mind. He was the third road fatality in Portland for the year.

The accident caused a huge traffic pile up for about two hours as police carried out investigations into the incident.

“He was a quiet person but his head goes and come and when it takes him he gets violent,” said Collette Davis, sister of the deceased.

“We were at the club where I work and he asked for some water and I gave him. He then started to take off his clothes and the girls went and talked to him, then the man who operates the club spoke to him and they went outside. Then I heard the girls screaming and they said a truck hit him down. I did not see what happened,” Davis said, her eyes filled with tears. She later broke down when a sheet that was used to cover her brother’s body was removed, exposing her brother’s nude mutilated body.

A resident described the young man as a good person, and related a recent incident when he saved a man who got into difficulties at the Orange Bay Beach.

“He was a good guy although his ‘head part’ wasn’t so good,” said the woman. His father, a district constable and a fisherman, migrated recently, said the woman.

Police at the scene where Ramon Davis was killed by a garbage truck early yesterday morning. (PHOTO: EVERARD OWEN)