An 18-year-old youth is dead and a 16-year-old boy hospitalised after a motorcycle slammed into a cow along the Petersfield main road in Westmoreland late Wednesday night.

Dead is Finardo Whitelocke, an unemployed resident of Logwood district in Whithorn, Westmoreland.

Reports from the police are that about 11:30 p.m., Whitelocke was riding a green Champion motorcycle towards Savanna-la-Mar with 16-year-old Ryan Williams riding pillion when a white cow reportedly wandered onto the roadway near Petersfield Primary School.