Cops probe deadly crash

Detectives attached to the Freeport Police Station and officers from the Freeport Traffic Department, in Montego Bay, St James, are still searching for answers behind a three-vehicle collision on Tuesday in which two men died, and five others were injured.

The deceased have been identified as 30-year-old Ricardo Gordon, mechanic of Gulf, Norwood, and Flanker, in St James, and 59-year-old, Jeffery Garwood, tour operator of Florence Hall, Trelawny.

Eyewitnesses say they saw a Toyota Mark X motor car closely following a Honda CR-V being driven by Gordon along the Rose Hall main road.

It is further reported that the Mark X slammed into the rear of the CR-V, resulting in Gordon losing control of the vehicle.

The CR-V then collided with a Toyota Hiace tour bus being driven by Garwood. The CR-V and Hiace were ripped apart, and Garwood and Gordon sustained severe injuries.

Both men, along with two foreign nationals who were travelling in the Hiace, and three other persons were rushed to the Falmouth Hospital, where Gordon and Garwood were pronounced dead and the others admitted in serious condition.

Linked to a shooting

The driver of the Mark X reportedly sped away.

Investigators are trying to ascertain if the crash is linked to a shooting that took place in Norwood earlier that day.

Reports by the police are that shortly after 5 p.m., armed men carried out an attack on men at a roadside garage in Norwood, resulting in two men being shot and injured. The gunmen sped away from the scene.

Meanwhile, Gordon's close relatives told THE STAR that they know him to be a kind, loving and honest individual, who has always tried to avoid trouble.

But one of them also said that he had complained that his life was being threatned by men in Norwood.

- H.B.