The Po­lice Ser­vice is urg­ing mo­torists to ex­er­cise care and cau­tion when dri­ving on the na­tion’s road­ways as two more peo­ple lost their lives over the last 48 hours.

On Tues­day morn­ing, dri­ver Andy Al­leyne sus­tained fa­tal in­juries when he lost con­trol of his Jaguar and crashed in­to the traf­fic light pole at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies In­ter­sec­tion along the east bound car­riage­way of the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way.

Then, just af­ter 6.30 pm on Wednes­day evening, a pedes­tri­an was struck dead by a mo­torist while at­tempt­ing to cross the east­bound car­riage­way of the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way from north to south.

Po­lice are still seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance to iden­ti­fy the per­son.

These two road traf­fic ac­ci­dents took the road traf­fic ac­ci­dent death toll for 2022 to 90 com­pared to 74 for the same pe­ri­od in 2021.

Po­lice say the fig­ure rep­re­sents an in­crease of 22 per cent over 2021.

Of par­tic­u­lar con­cern for 2022 is the fact that pedes­tri­ans ac­count for the largest cat­e­go­ry of road users be­ing killed on the road­ways with 35 of the road traf­fic deaths com­pared to 29 in 2021, a 20 per cent in­crease.

Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Er­la Christo­pher, is re­mind­ing mo­torists that there will be a height­ened pres­ence of law en­force­ment dur­ing the long week­end with road-polic­ing and an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es. Mo­torists are re­mind­ed to en­sure they have their valid dri­ving doc­u­ments ready for in­spec­tion by po­lice of­fi­cers and dri­vers are warned that breathal­yser and speed en­force­ment ex­er­cis­es will be in full ef­fect on both high­ways and main roads in keep­ing with the agency’s ef­forts to help save lives and keep fam­i­lies to­geth­er.