Seventeen-year-old Munro College student Amal Clarke will not be starting school today as he might have hoped. The teenager was the victim of a fatal road accident in St Elizabeth yesterday.

The death of young Clarke, a lower-sixth form student at the institution, brings to four the number of accident fatalities in that parish since the start of the New Year.

Police report that about 3:45 p.m. both Clarke and his elder brother, Mikhail, 25, a fireman attached to the Black River station, were travelling from Black River to Munro College.

Collided with minibus

On reaching Barbary Hall, near the popular nightclub G-Spot, the car collided with a minibus travelling in the opposite direction. Amal died on the spot. His brother, Mikhail, who was driving the car, is in stable but serious condition at the Black River hospital.

A third person, Dennis Bruce of Logwood Avenue in Black River, who was travelling in front passenger seat of the car, was treated for minor injuries and released.

The driver of the minibus Michael Simpson, 47, of Southfield district in the parish, also escaped with minor injuries and was treated at the black River hospital and released.

Residents of Barbary Hall blamed two potholes in the middle of the road for the cause of the accident and are calling for a speedy and urgent repair of the main road.

The Black River police are continuing their investigations. Both brothers are sons of the late attorney-at-law Michael Clarke of Exchange Drive in Black River.