A man is now dead following a motor vehicle collision on the Negril main road in Westmoreland yesterday.

He has been identified as 26-year-old Kevin Rhoden, a mechanic of a White Hall address in Negril.

The Little London Police said he was riding his motor cycle from Negril towards Savanna-la-Mar shortly after 4 p.m., when he lost control of the vehicle and it collided with a car which was travelling in the opposite direction.

Rhoden was pronounced dead at hospital and the driver of the motorcar admitted.

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