Constable Donald Carr of the St Andrew South Police Division died after being in a motor vehicle accident on the toll road in the vicinity of the Golden Grove community in Saint Ann.
Constable Carr died after losing control of the motorcar he was driving and in which his girlfriend was a passenger.
The tragic loss of this police officer and the serious injury of his girlfriend is exacerbated by allegations that some police vehicles did not have the necessary tags to access the toll road and therefore were unable to access the highway.
Other accounts say some officers arrived on the scene but refused to remove the victims from the scene in their service vehicle.
We have not been able to independently corroborate the veracity of this part of the reporting, sufficing to say that sources say the victims were not removed to the hospital for hours after the accident.
Allegations are that even with the victims dying they were not allowed to pass in the emergency vehicles before paying the toll.
If true, this is an example of the dangers of incompetent governance that have failed to appropriately legislate how our society is supposed to operate.
Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, a freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.