A 57-year-old woman was killed in a motor vehicle crash along the Round Hill main road, in Sandy Bay, Hanover yesterday (December 9).

She is Gabriel Sander, a sales representative of Montego Bay, St James.

Reports are that at about 5 PM, Sander was driving a Nissan motorcar along the roadway, when a Toyota Crown motor vehicle travelling in the opposite direction, collided with her vehicle.

Sander and the other driver were taken to the hospital, where Sander was pronounced dead.

The other driver is being treated.

At least 444 people have been killed in road crashes so far this year.

Based on the latest data from the Road Safety Unit, 15 per cent of the fatalities are females.