Yet another police officer died from injuries received in a car accident. The most recent died on Thursday at hospital.

The police constable attached to Mobile Reserve Division died in the Kingston Public Hospital on Thursday night from injuries he sustained in a car crash on the Old Harbour main road on Friday, March 21.

Dead is 28-year-old Damion McLean.

Police reports are that about 5:30 p.m., on March 21 Constable McLean was driving a Toyota Levin motor car registered 1003 FD along the Old Harbour main road. He was heading towards May Pen, when on reaching a section of the road, he lost control of the vehicle, which crashed into a utility pole.

He was taken to the Spanish Town Hospital and later transferred to the Kingston Public Hospital where he was admitted. He died last night about 9:00 p.m. The Old Harbour Traffic Department is investigating.

On Thursday, Detective Sergeant Curtis Ashman of the Organised Crime Unit was killed in a three vehicle collision along segment two of the North Coast Highway. Police reports are that about 10:40 a.m. the policeman, who was driving an unmarked vehicle, was in the vicinity of the Flankers community when he lost control of the car, which then hit a median on the highway and overturned.

The policeman's car then collided with a truck and a Suzuki motor car. The truck driver was also injured in the accident.