The Road Safety Unit, is appealing to all road users to wear their seat belts, helmets, and other protective devices to save life, as well as, to pay close attention to road signs and markings.

Director of the RSU Kenute Hare, is urging all road users to take road safety seriously.

He says majority of road crashes are related to bad driving practices.

Statistics from the unit reveals that as of January 25, twenty eight persons have been killed from a total of twenty-three fatal crashes.

Westmoreland accounted for nineteen percent of the road users killed, since the start of the year.

Hare noted that, in one incident, 5 persons were aboard a Nissan March motorcar when the driver executed perilous manoeuvre, crashed and caused 4 deaths.

In another incident, along Barnett Street, in Montego Bay, St. James this morning, 5 persons were travelling in a Toyota Corolla motorcar, in which no one was wearing seat belt.

All 5 were thrown out of the vehicle, resulting in one person’s death.