Hanover businessman dies in crash

A Hanover businessman was killed yesterday morning in a road crash in Hopewell.

He has been identified as 46-year-old McNeil Kerr, otherwise called 'Kid', a grocery store operator of Camp Road and Look-Out addresses in Hopewell.

Reports are that shortly after 9:30 a.m., Kerr, who had earlier complained to family members of feeling ill, was driving from Hopewell Square to Hopewell Mall when he lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle crashed into a ditch and hit a utility pole. Kerr, who sustained injuries, died on the spot. The police and the fire department were summoned. The scene was processed and Kerr's body was taken to the morgue for a post mortem.

On his way to visit a doctor

A large crowd gathered at the scene. Persons theorised that Kerr may have been on his way to visit a doctor, and passed out while driving.

Meanwhile, two other men perished in crashes in western Jamaica last Saturday. Merrick Mullings, 30, a farmer of Woodgrove district in Trelawny, died from injuries he received after the motorcycle he was driving crashed into a pile of yam sticks along the Lime Tree main road about 1 p.m. Another farmer who was a pillion also sustained injuries, and is in hospital in serious condition. In the other incident, about 10:30 p.m., a man known only as 'Trigger' was driving a motorcycle along the AGS Combs main road, in Montego Bay, when he lost control of it and was thrown from the seat. He crashed into a pole. He died on the spot.