Police are investigating a traffic collision which occurred at 11:00 am on Friday October 5, 2018 under the Canefield cliff.
According to police PRO Inspector Simon Edwards, 22 year-old Nehemiah Darroux of Petite Savanne, who resided at Canefield, was killed in the accident.
“According to the information received, three vehicles were involved in the incident. Suzuki Escudo jeep geistration number PM 569 owned and driven by Victor Jno Baptiste, male adult of Mero, Toyota Rav 4 registration number PH 405 owned and driven by Alexander Joseph, male adult of Kings Hill and motor scooter registration number PO 626, with Nehemiah Darroux as its rider, ” Edwards stated.
He continued, ” The Suzuki jeep was travelling in a northerly direction on the E. O. Leblanc Highway and in the process of overtaking vehicles that were ahead travelling in the same northerly direction, while the motor scooter and rider were travelling south on the highway and also overtaking a number of vehicles heading in the same southerly direction when the jeep and scooter collided head on.”
Edwards said the Suzuki jeep also struck the Rav 4 which was travelling north.
“The motorcyclist was thrown off the scooter and ended under the Toyota jeep. The driver of the Suzuki jeep, Victor Jno Baptiste and the rider of the scooter, Nehemiah Darroux, were transported to the accident and emergency department of the Princess Margaret Hospital. Jno Baptiste was attended to and discharged. Darroux was examined and officially pronounced dead by a medical doctor,” he stated. “The body of Nehemiah Darroux was transferred to the Lyndhurst Funeral Home. A post mortem will be conducted.”
if it helps, that day had a heavy traffic flow because of a sale at harris paints, so there was traffic on both sides.
Jeep is a brand, not a type of vehicle.
Thank you!
I HATE when people say Jeep when referring to SUVs or Cross Overs
Can any one explain why high way lane dividers have never been installed. Would put a stop to north bound traffic in south bound lane or vice versa
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How many people must die before the authorities erect a barrier that separates north and south bound traffic?
The solution to this carnage is not difficult
Both drivers were wrong for overtaking so sad that this young man has lost his life. So make an example of the survivor of the other vichele vichular homicide.
The vehicle in front is supposed to give you the indication that it is safe to overtake him before you attempt to overtake…
Maybe if we took more responsibility for our own safety and the safety of others these senseless accidents would not be happening.
Officer Edwards, that makes absolutely no sense.
If these two vehicle, traveling in opposite directions and overtaking other vehicles, they would have been on the opposite sides of the road. How could they have collided?
Scooter traveling south and overtaking would put it on the right side of the road going south. Escudo jeep travelling north and overtaking would put it on the right side of the road going north, which means in whichever direction you look at it, these two vehicle would have been on the opposite sides of the road on which they were travelling…one on the left side and the other on the right side. How could they have collided?
Or maybe they were both trying to overtake on the inside which is why they collided
Sounds to me that they were in the middle of the road when they collided
or someone can be politically connected
so if they’re both wrong
then the survivor can’t be “guilty”