Jamaica has been thrust into a flurry of emotions as disgraced pastor Kevin O Smith was diverted from court to morgue after sustaining fatal injuries in a motor vehicle accident this morning (October 25). 

Smith was pronounced dead at the Linstead Hospital, moments after the bizarre crash along the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine. 

Eyewitness reports reaching the Our Today newsroom indicate that Smith was being transferred from Montego Bay to Kingston in a two-vehicle convoy. 

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had preferred a voluntary bill of indictment against Smith to allow that he be tried in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston—precipitating the need for his transfer from Montego Bay to the capital.

Per eyewitness reports, the two-vehicle convoy was travelling through the gorge en route to Kingston, when the unmarked vehicle that carried Smith encountered difficulty around 9:00 am. 

The vehicle transporting Smith, who was in the company of three policemen, slammed into two other vehicles before crashing to a halt in bushes.

Many residents of the gorge initially came out to assist the injured policemen and Smith, however, on realising the ‘cult’ leader’s identity, they scrapped plans to help and ran in fear.

Amateur video of the accident aftermath shows members of the Jamaica Fire Brigade extracting an unresponsive Smith from the motor vehicle’s mangled husk. 

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Smith was then placed on a stretcher by EMT personnel and transported to the Linstead Hospital. 

Additional reports indicate that the injured lawmen were transferred to the Spanish Town Hospital for treatment.

One of the injured policemen succumbed to injuries he sustained in the strange accident, while the other two lawmen are in critical condition and about to undergo surgery.

Smith, the disgraced pastor implicated in the ritualised killings of two members of his Pathways Christian Cathedral (PCC) last Sunday, often used ‘999’ in code as part of self-proclaimed ‘prophesy’.

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• GoFundMe campaign on behalf of cult leader Kevin Smith scrapped
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* A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the JCF convoy consisted of nine vehicles. In a media interview, Senior Superintendent of Police Stephanie Lindsay confirmed that the police convoy was made up of two vehicles.