{"id":2543,"date":"2019-07-17T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2019-07-17T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T19:50:10","slug":"motorcyclists-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2543","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclists killed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There seems to be no end to the carnage on the roads as two men were killed in separate motorcycle accidents in Trelawny and Hanover on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those killed have\nbeen identified as 40-year-old Clayton Hines, otherwise called \u2018Rat\u2019 of\nScarlett Hall, Falmouth in Trelawny, and 27-year-old Chevoy McDermott of\nHanover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the first\nincident, the police report that about 5:45 a.m., Hines was driving his\nmotorbike along the Bogue Gate Road towards Salt Marsh in the parish, when it\nis alleged that he was knocked off the motorbike by a car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The car did not\nstop but sped away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police were\ncalled and Hines was seen lying on his back along the roadway.&nbsp; He was later taken to hospital where he was\npronounced dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hines\u2019s death\nfollows that of 61-year-old Ralbert Kerr of Hague district, also in Trelawny,\nwho died as a result of injuries he sustained during a hit-and-run accident\nlast month along the Martha Brae main road in the parish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the other fatal\naccident on Sunday, reports are that a motorcyclist was travelling from Mt.\nPleasant towards Lucea when he lost control of the vehicle which slammed into\nthe back of another motorcycle being driven by McDermott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The impact resulted\nin McDermott being flung from the vehicle and into a concrete utility pole. He\nsuffered head and other injuries. He was rushed to the Noel Holmes Hospital\nwhere he was pronounced dead.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A pillion passenger\nwho was on the motorcycle with McDermott received only minor cuts and bruises. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be no end to the carnage on the roads as two men were killed in separate motorcycle accidents in Trelawny and Hanover on Sunday. Those killed have been identified as 40-year-old Clayton Hines, otherwise called \u2018Rat\u2019 of Scarlett Hall, Falmouth in Trelawny, and 27-year-old Chevoy McDermott of Hanover. In the first incident, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1388,143,1170,942,30],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-clayton-hines","tag-hit-and-run","tag-motorcycle-accident","tag-road-fatalities","tag-western-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","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=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}