Omar Francis, the Jamaica Labour Party's prospective candidate for the Point Hill Division in the St Catherine Municipal Corporation, died in a motor vehicle crash Monday morning.

The incident occurred sometime after 3 o'clock in Byles district, Kitson Town, St Catherine.

 

Residents told Radio Jamaica News that they heard a noise and went to investigate. They reportedly found Mr Francis inside a Toyota Rav 4 that had crashed into a concrete culvert.

 

He was taken to hospital where he later died.