MANCHESTER, Jamaica— A policeman died as a result of injuries he sustained in a two-vehicle crash on the Melrose Hill Bypass in Manchester Saturday night.

He has been identified as 24-year-old Constable Ian Blagrove who was assigned to the Kendal police station in Manchester.

Preliminary reports are that at about 9:45 pm, Blagrove was driving a Honda Stepwagon motorcar, which he operated as a public passenger vehicle, uphill when the vehicle crashed into the back of a tractor-trailer.

The mangled vehicle involved in Saturday’s fatal crash in Manchester. (Photo: Kasey Williams)

The impact resulted in Blagrove being pinned inside the mangled vehicle. Blagrove, who was the only occupant of the vehicle, was extricated by firefighters and rushed to hospital by his colleagues in the Manchester police division but was pronounced dead on arrival.

His colleagues huddled at the crash scene, some in disbelief that he died shortly after going off duty from his second job as a taxi operator.

Blagrove reportedly plied the Mandeville to Porus route.

— Kasey Williams