BY RASBERT TURNER, STAR Writer
TRAFFIC ALONG THE busy Mandela Highway was reduced to a crawl yesterday, following a gruesome motor vehicle accident which killed three persons and injured another.
Motorists, some of whom turned back, were caught in traffic for up to three hours as firemen and police attempted to remove the bodies and clear the road of the mangled vehicles.
Reports say the four were in a Mark II motor car registered 6071 DM. They were travelling towards Spanish Town when the car hit a median and the driver lost control of the car which ran on to the opposite side of the road in the path of traffic travelling in the opposite direction. It was hit by an international motor truck.
The collision resulted in the car being pushed more than 100 metre and the right side of the truck then ran over the entire front section of the motor car, reducing it to mangled metal. The three died on the spot, while one was cut from the wreckage and taken to the Spanish Town Hospital.
AUTO REPAIRMEN
Two of the men have been identified as 18-year-old Simeon Barnett, auto body repairman of Portmore Pines, St. Catherine, and Lambert Brown, 28, auto body repairman of Silver Stone, Portmore. Another man only known as Bunny' was transferred from the Spanish Town Hospital to the Kingston Public Hospital, while the driver of the motor car had not been ascertained up to press time, last night.
"Bwoy nobody couldn't live inna dis, mi haffi see the man weh dem seh deh a hospital", remarked a woman, who was one of many onlookers who turned up to view the accident scene.
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