TOLL GATE, Clarendon — A night of T20 cricket enjoyment at Sabina Park in Kingston just over a week ago almost ended in death for three people when the sport utility vehicle in which they were travelling back to Mandeville crashed into a cow that had wandered onto the May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000 in pitch darkness.

Hopeton McCatty, the driver and owner of the Mitsubishi Pajero; his friend Wensworth Skeffery, a former Opposition senator; and Skeffery’s 24-year-old daughter were not injured, but the cow died in the August 15 collision that revived fears of the danger posed to life by stray animals on the high-speed road.

“We took my friend’s daughter to cricket for the first time and she enjoyed it; a very good game of cricket, a fantastic crowd. We left Sabina Park and went downtown then joined the toll road at Portmore,” McCatty told the Jamaica Observer.