33-y-o dies in Westmoreland crash
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September 2, 2020

33-y-o dies in Westmoreland crash

WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — Twenty-three-year-old Lucan Byfield of Hertford, Westmoreland died as a result of injuries he received in a vehicular crash on the Torrington main road in the parish on Thursday, September 3.

Reports from the Savanna-la-Mar police are that about 12:10 pm, Byfield was riding his motorcycle from Savanna-la-Mar towards Petersfield in the parish when the motorcycle collided head-on with a motor truck.

The police said he was rushed to the hospital where he died while undergoing treatment. The driver of the motor truck was treated.

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