Pickup driver pleads guilty following crash involving Minto
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Dwight Parchment, the pickup driver whose vehicle collided with an unmarked service vehicle and left the head of the St Elizabeth Police Superintendent, Coleridge Minto, hospitalised for four days, pleaded guilty to careless driving resulting in a collision on Friday.
He was fined $80,000 or two months in prison when he appeared before presiding judge Alwayne Smith at the Santa Cruz courthouse.
On March 13 between 4:30 pm and 5:00 pm, Minto was traveling in an unmarked service vehicle, a Mitsubishi Pajero, on the Jacks Gate main road in New Market when a Nissan pickup crashed into the front of the SUV.
Minto was first admitted to the Black River Hospital before being transferred to the University Hospital of the West Indies. He was released from the hospital four days later and returned to work on Monday, March 24.
The judge reportedly told Parchment that even though the road was wet, he had a responsibility to be careful.
