Gleaner employee among two dead in separate motorcycle crashes

Rasbert Turner, Gleaner Writer

A motorcyclist was killed in an accident along the Linstead bypass in St Catherine this morning.

Dead is Kevari Newton, a 27-year-old labourer of a Kingston 20 address.

Reports are that about 8 a.m. the Honda motorcycle was traveling behind a Daihatsu truck towards Ewarton.

Upon reaching the vicinity of the Commodore cemetery, the truck was turning right when Newton tried to overtake it, but collided into it.

Newton died on the spot,the Bog Walk police is investigating the matter.

This follows a similar motorcycle crash yesterday along Harbour Street, downtown Kingston in which a tractor trailer crushed to death the driver of the bike.

He has been identified as Wayne Lyons, a press maintenance supervisor at The Gleaner Company.

He was employed to The Gleaner for more than 16 years.

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