ST ANN, Jamaica – Several persons escaped serious injury following two separate motor vehicle crashes on the Ocho Rios main road in St Ann on Saturday.

Observer Online understands that the crashes happened hours apart.

In the first collision at around 7 am, a public passenger vehicle crashed into a motor car in the vicinity of the Fesco gas station.

The details of that incident are not yet known. The police were called to the scene and the injured occupants taken to hospital.

The scene in the aftermath of one of the crashes on the Ocho Rios main road in St Ann on Saturday.

Hours later around 3 pm, another crash happened on the same thoroughfare meters from the first incident.

The driver of one of the vehicles claimed that he was being overtaken by another vehicle when the crash happened.

“I was just coming about to turn…and the man a overtake me on the soft shoulder so when me say me a turn yah now him can’t do nothing again, him just run ina the wall…me a turn here so and him a undertake me, me couldn’t even see him to how fast him a go,” he said.

He appealed to other road users to use the road carefully.

“You just have to slow down mon, but you have to respect the road enuh, a wul heapa carnage me see, because I drive for a living and the amount of stupidness me see a go on, it’s appalling, me no know what can be done just to have them get them head together, because a one life every man have enuh mon,” he said.

According to the Road Safety Unit, since the start of the year St Ann has recorded 11 fatal crashes resulting in 17 fatalities, in comparison to 10 fatal crashes and 10 fatalities in the corresponding period last year.