Man crushed to death by truck

When Damoy Wright left his home last Friday to run an errand in Albert Town, Trelawny, his family had no idea that he would never make it back home.

Upon reaching Cotton Tree, a loaded truck fell on to the motor car he was driving, killing him. The Ulster Spring police say the incident occurred around 2 p.m., when the driver of the truck, which was laden with chicken feed and heading towards Albert Town, allegedly lost control of the unit. Wright, 25, was trapped under the wreckage for around three hours. His family wept openly at his home on Monday as they remembered him. Wright died leaving a twin brother and a young brother.

His aunt, Patricia Ricketts, explained that Wright used her car to purchase packs of small bags for the family-run shop, a regular trip for him.

"He took the car key from my husband and said he soon come. He said to me, 'Aunty, which one of the bags? Is it the five-pound bag?' I told him, 'Yes, the five-pound bags', and asked him buy some other bags because we had peas to tie out. That was it." They were puzzled when they didn't see him returning.

"We were there waiting. Even his younger brother was saying, "A weh this ya man deh suh long?' My husband said that he is probably buying food before he comes back because if he goes to Albert Town and he's hungry, he's going to go buy food," Ricketts recalled.

"We were waiting on him, only to get the call that they saw a car out by Cotton Tree that looked like my husband's car. We knew that it was him who drove it. My nephew just went and he didn't return. They just took him from me. They took him from me," Ricketts said between sobs. Wright's cousin Cleopatra Scott said hat his death had left her frightened.

"I felt like not only my heart shattered, but my entire body shattered. How do you go to buy poly bags and not return home? It's not possible. How do you go to buy poly bags and a truck turn over on you? A loaded truck with poultry feeding," she wailed.

The grieving relatives remember Wright as a youngster who touched many lives with his loving heart and kind actions, calling him a jack of all trades. A devout Christian who attended the Stettin New Testament Church of God and played the bass guitar.

Ricketts explained that Wright studied at the HEART College of Construction Services in Portmore, St Catherine, after leaving Albert Town High School.

"He did construction and cabinet building. He's the one who did everything at the shop. He did the shelves, the counters, and everything else. He had dreams for a better life for him and us because as I said, he was kind. He wasn't a selfish man," he said.