A nineteen-year-old man is dead and another person has been hospitalised following a crash along the  AGR Byfield main road in St Ann, yesterday.

Dead is Kassim Peart of Old Buckfield, Ocho Rios in the parish.

Police report that at about 4:15 p.m., Peart was driving a Toyota Crown motor car along the roadway with a passenger aboard, when he lost control of the vehicle which collided with a railing.

Both occupants were taken to hospital, where Peart was pronounced dead. 

The passenger was admitted in serious condition.