Two peo­ple lost their lives in sep­a­rate road traf­fic ac­ci­dents with­in 12 hours, with the lat­est crash oc­cur­ring near the San­ta Philli­pa Bridge along the Ca­paro Val­ley Bras­so Road yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The lat­est vic­tim was iden­ti­fied as 42-year-old Ja­son Ram­nanan of Ca­paro, who died af­ter the pan­el van he was dri­ving col­lid­ed with a waste dis­pos­al truck short­ly af­ter 9 am.

Ram­nanan’s death came hours af­ter an uniden­ti­fied man be­lieved to be home­less was fa­tal­ly struck by an un­marked po­lice ve­hi­cle along the south­bound lane of the Uri­ah But­ler High­way near Home and Be­yond on Fri­day night.