Rasbert Turner, Gleaner Writer

Curious onlookers view the scene of Tuesday's five-vehicle accident in the Bog Walk gorge which left one man dead. - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer

SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine:

The Spanish Town police were up to yesterday morning still searching for the driver of the truck that caused the death of another motorist during a five-vehicle collision along the Bog Walk gorge in St Catherine on Tuesday.

Reports reaching The Gleaner are that the Ford flat-bed truck was proceeding from the direction of Spanish Town sometime after 4:00 p.m., laden with a forklift. On reaching a narrow section of the gorge, about 1,000 metres east of the Flat Bridge, it hit the back of another truck.

This caused the driver to lose control and, in the process, he hit three other vehicles, one of which, a Toyota Corolla motor car, was pushed into the river.

After the accident, the driver of the flat-bed truck fled the scene. Persons in the area jumped into the river and retrieved the body of Harry Wright, of a Manchester Avenue address.

The accident resulted in a massive pile-up of traffic and some persons were forced to walk from the bridge almost all the way to Spanish Town.