Biker dies in Westmoreland crash

A biker died this afternoon in Westmoreland, after his motorbike slammed into a Rubis petrol truck near Torrington in the parish at approximately 12:30 pm.

Eyewitnesses said the unidentified man was in the process of overtaking a line of traffic during a heavy downpour of rain.

They report that he was unable to control the speeding motorbike and he collided head-on into the truck that was travelling in the opposite direction.

He was pronounced dead at the Savanna-la-mar Hospital.

There was no injury to the truck driver or anyone else.

The crash happened in front of the Westmoreland Early Childhood Resource Centre, which is one of a number of polling stations in the Westmoreland Central constituency.

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