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VIDEO: 4 confirmed dead in Highway 2000 crash

Published 13 April, 2021

Basseterre

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

Source: LOOP NEWS

Screengrab of a video showing the Toyota Hiace bus which was involved in a fatal collision with a truck along Highway 2000 on Monday morning.

The police are reporting that two unidentified males and two unidentified females have succumbed to injuries received in a motor vehicle accident along the PJ Patterson Highway — the Kingston to May Pen leg of Highway 2000 — on Monday.

“We are able to confirm that four persons have died,” head of the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, Senior Superintendent of Police Gary McKenzie told Loop News.

“There are a number of persons that have been taken to the Spanish Town Hospital, and we have heard that a few of them are critical… a number of them are [also] seriously injured,” he added.

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Reports from the Spanish Town police are that about 11am, a Toyota Hiace bus was travelling towards Kingston when it is alleged that one of the tyres blew out. The driver of the Hiace, which was being operated as a public passenger vehicle, lost control of the bus and collided with a motor truck before it overturned several times and crashed into the median.

Eleven other occupants of the bus were transported to hospital in serious condition.

Further updates to follow.

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