{"id":2487,"date":"2019-07-03T20:25:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T20:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2019-07-03T20:25:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T20:25:49","slug":"young-bartender-dies-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2487","title":{"rendered":"Young bartender dies in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em><strong>Four admitted to hospital<\/strong><\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Barrington Flemming<\/strong> &#8211; Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Another motorist fell\nprey along the black spot area of the Rose Hall main road in Montego Bay on\nSunday, when the life of a young man was snuffed out in a motor vehicle\ncollision, while four other persons were admitted to hospital in serious\ncondition.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim has been identified as 21-year-old bartender,\nChristopher Sherman of lot 22 Ranch Road, West Green, Montego Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Barrett Town police who are investigating, reports that\nabout 2 a.m., Sherman was driving a Toyota Yaris motorcar from Falmouth towards\nMontego Bay with three women aboard.&nbsp; It\nis further reported that on reaching the vicinity of Wagon Wheel, the vehicle\ncollided with a Toyota Axio which was travelling in the opposite direction,\ntowards Falmouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three women in the car being driven by Sherman, along\nwith the driver of the Toyota Axio, received multiple injuries and were taken\nto the Falmouth Public General Hospital where they were admitted in serious\ncondition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, firefighters from the Ironshore Fire Department,\nwho were quick on the scene, were called into action and were forced to use the\nJaws of Life to cut Sherman from the wreckage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His lifeless body was taken to hospital where he was\npronounced dead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sherman\u2019s death pushes the number of fatalities in the\nparish of St. James, since the start of the year, to 19 from 18 crashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The parish of Westmoreland has similar figures to St. James,\nwhile Trelawny has recorded 16 fatalities from 13 crashes, with 10 persons\ndying from 9 crashes in the parish of Hanover.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another motorist fell prey along the black spot area of the Rose Hall main road in Montego Bay on Sunday, when the life of a young man was snuffed out in a motor vehicle collision, while four other persons were admitted to hospital in serious condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1354,237,38,1353,942,30],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-bartender","tag-car-crash","tag-hospital","tag-motor-vehicle-collision","tag-road-fatalities","tag-western-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}