Police data have revealed that forty people have died in motor vehicle crashes in July, marking the first time this year and all of last year that road fatalities for a single calendar month have hit that figure.
The 40th fatality was the previously unreported death of a 68-year-old woman, who died in a two-vehicle collision along Gordon Town Road in St Andrew on Saturday. The incident, which occurred at 10:50 am, was listed in the daily fatal collision report published on Wednesday by the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch. Her name and further details were not disclosed.
“July 2025 has now joined the infamous ‘40 and over’ club,” said Dr Lucien Jones, vice-chairman of the National Road Safety Council. “Last year, when we dropped to 365 [road deaths] from 424 the year before, we had none,” he added.
This is the tenth time since 2010 that Jamaica has recorded 40 or more road fatalities in a single month.
The record for the highest number of monthly road deaths remains 58 in December 2021, followed by 53 in November 2022, according to official statistics.
The sharp rise in fatalities—40 in July and 34 in June—has erased the progress made earlier this year, when road deaths were down by 18 per cent as of the first week of March.
To date, 229 people have died on Jamaica’s roads in 2025, representing a three per cent increase compared to the same period last year.
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