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Cyclist dies after crash

IN THE SPACE of an hour, two separate accidents involving three minibuses left one man dead and 21 people injured.

Speaking on the scene of the island’s first road fatality for the year at Arch Hall, St Thomas, yesterday evening, police public relations officer Acting Inspector Roland Cobbler said lawmen were investigating the death of 35-year-old motorcyclist Robert Hollingsworth.

Witnesses reported that Hollingsworth, of Belfield, Black Rock, St Michael, had collided with a minibus driven by Marklee Harris, 37, of Carlton, St James, and as a result lost control of his motorcycle on that section of the Ronald Mapp Highway.

With family members overwhelmed with grief on seeing his body, a nearby resident told the DAILY NATION what transpired. (AD)

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