The St Ann police have identified the two people who succumbed to injuries they sustained in a two-bus collision on the Llandovery main road in St Ann on Sunday.
Dead are 39-year-old Hermit Grant of Aboukir, near Brown’s Town in the parish, and 56-year-old Elizabeth Palmer of Mount Edgecombe in Runaway Bay, also in St Ann.
The Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) said the St Ann’s Bay police reported that about 8:30am, a Toyota coaster bus was travelling towards St James when, on reaching a section of the road, it collided with a Toyota Hiace bus that was travelling in the opposite direction.
The police said they were alerted, along with units from the St Ann’s Bay Fire Department, and the injured were transported to the hospital.
The two people who died – a driver and a passenger – were travelling in the Toyota Hiace bus.
According to Senior Medical Officer at the St Ann’s Bay Hospital, Dr Tanya Hamilton, 27 persons were presented to the hospital from the crash, of which two died.
In fact, she said the injuries of the remaining 25 persons were “quite severe”, and “about four persons were being prepared for surgical intervention.”
