Security guard killed in Clarendon crash

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Security guard killed in Clarendon crash

Sixty-year-old Dexton Brown, a security guard of Crofts Hills district, Clarendon was killed in a vehicular crash in the parish on Sunday, February 7. It is reported that about 2:30 p.m., Brown was driving his Toyota Corolla motor car along the Crofts Hill main road.

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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