The Tribune

POLICE are investigating two traffic accidents, the first involving a fatality. In the second, accident a motorcyclist was sent to hospital. In the first accident, a 53-year-old Cowpen Road resident was crossing Carmichael Road near Unison Road before 7am Monday when he was accidentally hit by a 2007 Ford Ranger truck, driven by a 47-year-old woman. The victim was seriously injured and died at the scene. In the second accident, a 55-year-old visitor from Minnesota is in hospital after being involved in a collision at 1:30pm yesterday at the intersection of Blake Road and John F Kennedy Drive. The visitor was riding his motorcycle west on JFK when it and a burgundy coloured Astro Van, travelling east, collided. Police are also investigating a drowning incident that involved a 34-year-old man, believed to be a Jamaican. The incident is reported to have occurred shortly before 4pm Sunday when it was said that the deceased was spearfishing with another man in the West Bay Street area.