{"id":546,"date":"2017-08-16T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2017-08-16T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:34:07","slug":"fatal-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shamir Brown<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Trelawny Correspondent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Family and friends of Michael Campbell are now mourning his untimely demise after he lost his life in a motor vehicle collision in the early hours of Sunday morning in Montego Bay.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Campbell, 31, of a Greenwood address, was killed when the Honda CR-V he was driving slammed into the back of a parked Freightliner truck that was set along Sunset Boulevard in the vicinity of the airport. He suffered multiple fractures and contusions and was trapped in the vehicle.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Fire Department was called in and his body had to be extricated from the vehicle using hydraulic equipment. However, their efforts proved futile as the injuries he received proved fatal, even though he was rushed to hospital for treatment. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-552\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-552\" src=\"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wreckage-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wreckage-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wreckage-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wreckage-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wreckage.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CR-V after Campbell&#8217;s body was extricated from it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to reports, Campbell, a former Cornwallian, was on his way home when the accident occurred. While the police have not released a cause for the accident, there are different theories going around as to what could have led to the accident. One is that the truck was poorly illuminated in its parked state, while another suggests he may have fallen asleep at the wheel. However, the police have yet to corroborate these theories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The death of Campbell has thrown his family and friends into a tailspin as he was a man who was very much loved. He reportedly leaves behind a young child and one on the way. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Campbell, who was a chicken farmer, also did mechanic work at his father\u2019s garage in Savanna-la-Mar from time to time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamir Brown Trelawny Correspondent Family and friends of Michael Campbell are now mourning his untimely demise after he lost his life in a motor vehicle collision in the early hours of Sunday morning in Montego Bay. Campbell, 31, of a Greenwood address, was killed when the Honda CR-V he was driving slammed into the back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[97,94,96,95],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-cornwallian","tag-fatal","tag-michael-campbell","tag-vehicular-collision"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}