Trelawny businessman killed in motor vehicle crash
FALMOUTH, Trelawny – The Trelawny police were up to yesterday afternoon probing the circumstances surrounding a motor vehicle crash along the Falmouth to Martha Brae main road in the parish which Wednesday evening left a biker dead.
The deceased has been identified as 28-year-old businessman John Mason Jnr, also called Poochie, of a Top Hill, Trelawny address.
His death brings to 13 the number of people who have died as a result of injuries they received in motor vehicle crashes in Trelawny since the start of the year.
Police reports are that about 7:30 pm Wednesday Mason was driving a motorcycle along the Falmouth to Martha Brae thoroughfare, when he slammed into a motor car travelling in the same direction.
Mason sustained multiple injuries and was later pronounced dead at the Falmouth Public General Hospital. The police say he was not wearing any protective headgear at the time of the crash and visibility in the area was reportedly poor, due mainly to smoke emanating from a nearby bush fire.
But a distraught father of the deceased, John Mason Snr, said “more than one alleged eyewitness” gave conflicting versions to the police.
The distressed father contended that when the crash occurred the area was already clear of smoke as members of the Falmouth Fire Department had put out the blaze.
He further told the Jamaica Observer that he was reliably informed that a Noah bus, which eventually did not stop, first obstructed his son before the collision with the motor car.
“Two other vehicles involved in the accident. A bus bad drive him, and he ended up that he was hit by the car. Nobody don’t know who drive the Noah, it just drive away. And all them a talk about smoke, the smoke had cleared up already,” the bereaved father insisted.
“The whole family in mourning; his mother who lives abroad gone a doctor. His siblings and everybody, abroad and locally, are taking it real hard. He was the backbone for the business,” said the mourning father.
In the meantime, the police are now in search of the motorcycle, which was removed from the crash scene by unknown individuals.
