UPDATE! At least four persons dead in crash

[MdmeX]

this morning near Christiana, Manchester.

The dead, include three female students of Holmwood Technical. Onlookers say that the bus was speeding. The driver also died in the accident.

[Mosiah]

the police have spoken about zero tolerance for taxi drivers speeding and overloading.

wi just not serious.

[Me]

The drivers are not serious. You right.

[Sickko]

Every few years there is a fatal crash involving Holmwood students... damn

[Farmah]

Sad. May their souls R.I.P.

[MdmeX]

Maybe passengers need to start beating the damn drivers when they're driving reckless and speeding.

[Gamma]

recipe fi anedda accident. what they should do is ask him to stop the bus and get off!

[Nemesis]

Maybe passengers need to start beating the damn drivers when they're driving reckless and speeding.

You will be fighting off the other passengers telling the driver to go faster.

[MdmeX]

Crash latest: Counselling for Holmwood students

Crash latest: Counselling for Holmwood students
BY GARFIELD MYERS Editor-at-Large South/Central Bureau myersg@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, April 07, 2011

THE Ministry of Education has dispatched guidance counsellors to Holmwood Technical High School in Manchester following the deaths of three students in a horrific bus crash, which also claimed the life of the owner/conductor earlier today.

"A critical response team from the Guidance and Counselling Unit of the ministry has been mobilised to offer counselling to students and staff of the schools whose students were involved in or saw the accident," said the ministry in a statement.

Scene of the accident in Bryce, northern Clarendon this morning. (Photo: Gregory Bennett)

The Manchester police confirmed that three Holmwood students and the driver were among four deaths in the crash at Bryce about two miles north of Christiana in northern Manchester about 7:30 am.

Police told the Observer that the bus with 16 school children aboard was travelling from southern Trelawny into Manchester when the driver failed to negotiate a corner. The bus crashed into an embankment and overturned.

Most if not all the surviving children were reportedly rushed to hospital.
Police are withholding the identity of the dead pending contact with relatives.

Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1ItORrZZi

[Mosiah]

vex when mi see dem ting yah. people need fi tell dem drivahs fi cool it off or let dem out!

[MdmeX]

vex when mi see dem ting yah. people need fi tell dem drivahs fi cool it off or let dem out!

Serious ting Mo. Now the driver in hiding. Earlier reports that the driver died, was really the conductor/owner of the bus.

[Shola]

Sometimes I really wonder, on my daily commute I see these bus and taxi men do the most illegal acts on our roads and there is not 1 officer in sight, but as soon as I do 70km in a 50km zone there's a speed trap waiting to issue a ticket.

The only action the police seem to take against these road abusers is to tow away the ones that are not licensed. What about the 1s that are licensed and causing havoc on our roads.