FIVE persons were killed yesterday when the taxi in which they were travelling collided with a truck along the Dawkins Pen main road in Clarendon.

Plice identified four of the dead as:
. Oshane Morris;
. Terence Minott;
. Jody-Ann Henry; and
. Tracey Anderson.

The driver, Winston Singh of Raymond in Hayes, Clarendon, survived the crash.

According to Constable Camay Watson, Constabulary Communication Network officer for Clarendon, the accident occurred at approximately 2:30 pm yesterday afternoon, but did not yet have details about the crash at the time.

She, however, told the Observer that the truck, which was travelling south on the roadway, and the taxi, a Toyota Corolla motor car, which was travelling in the opposite direction, ended up in a nearby ditch after the crash.
All five persons travelling in the taxi, Watson said, were killed on the spot.