Motor cyclists continue to add to the death toll when last week a rider lost his life after demonstrating brazen contempt of road traffic laws by having two pillion passengers on his vehicle.

Twenty-four year-old Jermaine McDonald, graphic designer of Caribbean Estate, Portmore, St Catherine died from injuries he sustained after crashing his motorcycle along the Crescent main road in the parish.

His pillion riders, twenty-year-old Simone Campbell and 16-year-old Latisha Fisher, both of Waterhouse, Kingston 20, were injured.

According to police reports about 3:00 am last Sunday McDonald was driving a Honda motor cycle from Spanish Town with both Campbell and Fisher as pillion passengers.

On reaching the entrance to Angels Estate, McDonald, who was not wearing a helmet, lost control of the motorcycle, which ran into a ditch.

All three persons sustained injuries and were taken to the Spanish Town Hospital where McDonald was pronounced dead and the females admitted.

Since January, 11 motorcyclists and two pillion passengers have been killed in crashes, none of them wearing a protective helmet, the Transport ministry's Road Safety Unit has reported.

Sixty-four people have been killed in 60 crashes to March 16, RSU data reveals.

Pedestrians, with 28 killed since the start of the year, is the only category of road users that surpass motorcyclists.

Ten private motor vehicle drives have been killed in crashes while seven passengers in private motor vehicles have been killed.