FALMOUTH, TRELAWNY: Traffic cop pursuing bus dies in crash.

FALMOUTH, Trelawny — The Trelawny police division was plunged into mourning yesterday following news that one of their colleagues died from injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle collision here.

Twenty-two-year-old Constable Omar Elliot, who joined the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) just under three years ago, died at the Cornwall Regional Hospital yesterday afternoon while undergoing treatment.

Constable Omar Elliot,
who got married just two months
 ago to a member of the
 JCF, with his one-year-old daughter.

 

Persons claiming to be eyewitnesses said that the cop was driving a police service motorcycle in hot pursuit of a minibus plying the Falmouth to Montego Bay route when he collided with a SUV.

According to head of the Trelawny police division, Senior Superintendent Noel Christie, about 8:15 yesterday morning, the constable, who is assigned to the Traffic Department at the Falmouth Police Station, was on patrol along the one-way Duke Street main road when he collided with a Toyota Harrier, which was in the process of making a right turn. Read more: