Man dies after crashing into cow in Westmoreland
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica— A man is dead after his motorcycle collided with a stray cow on the Petersfield main road in Westmoreland, on Christmas Eve.
He is 29-year-old Odane Dennison of Pipers Corner, Savanna-la-Mar in the parish.
Reports from the police are that about 1:00 pm, Dennison was driving his motorcycle along the roadway when he collided with a cow that walked into his path.
The police were summoned and Dennison was taken to the hospital by a passer-by, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
Dennison is the third person to have died in the parish, since the start of the year, as a result of untethered animals.
On July 30, the Westmoreland Police Division was plunged into mourning after 21-year-old Constable Tajay Ebanks died as a result of injuries he sustained when his service motorcycle collided with a cow, in Little London in the parish.
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Three days later, 22-year-old Christopher Samuels otherwise called ‘Delano’ of Dalling Street in Savanna-la-Mar was driving his Toyota Corolla Axio motor car with two other people onboard when upon reaching a section of the Little London main road a cow walked into the path of the vehicle causing a collision.
Samuels lost control of the vehicle and collided into a tree. Samuels was pronounced dead while the man and woman passengers were hospitalised.
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Meanwhile, a hotel worker in the parish also had a near death encounter on August 4, when he too collided with a cow while driving his motorcycle from work in Retreat, Little London.
Reports are that the man was travelling on his bike shortly after 8:00pm when a cow walked into his path.
The motorcycle collided into the belly of the cow and he was flung from his bike.
He was transported to hospital where he was admitted in a serious but stable condition.
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His sister, at the time of the incident, had told Observer Online that she is gravely concerned about the untethered cow situation.
“Something ought to be done about [these stray cows], it cannot continue like this,” the distraught woman had said.
Kimberley Peddie
