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A 66-year-old man was killed yesterday when a garbage truck struck him while he was attempting to restart his truck along the Audrey Jeffers Highway in Cocorite.
Lennox Sylvan, of Unity Road, off Richplain Road, Diego Martin, was attending to his truck near the Cocorite Fishing Facility when the accident occurred around 1.47 p.m. during heavy rainfall.
Police said Sylvan was driving west along the highway when his truck developed mechanical problems near the entrance to the fishing facility.
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