ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — A police constable who sustained serious injuries in a motorcycle crash on the Lacovia main road in St Elizabeth on Friday has died.

He has been identified as Constable Ezroy Boothe.

A police source said the policeman succumbed on Monday at the Black River Hospital, three days after the crash.

On Sunday, head of the St Elizabeth police Superintendent Coleridge Minto, in a video on the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s social media platforms, issued a plea to the public for the donation of blood for the policeman.

He said Constable Boothe was seriously injured during the crash on Friday.

“At about 10:00 pm Constable Ezroy Boothe was driving his private motorbike in an easterly direction along the Lacovia main road heading in the direction of Santa Cruz. On reaching a section of the main road he lost control of the motorbike and crashed into a pole,” said Minto.

“He received severe injuries and was taken to the Black River Hospital…. Both legs are broken as well as he sustained other internal injuries to include also his pelvis. He lost a lot of blood during this accident…”

Minto had also disclosed plans to transfer Boothe to another medical facility on Sunday.

— Kasey Williams