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Crash Fatality Identified

Crash Fatality Identified

March 19, 2024
2:46 pm

The victim of yesterday’s fatal car crash, this country’s first road fatality for the year, has been identified as 59-year-old Jeffrey Hope of Foster Hall St. John.

He was killed when the motor car he was driving struck a utility pole and overturned at the junction of Farrell’s Road and the East Coast Road, St. Andrew around 4:14pm yesterday.

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