A policeman examines the body of this woman who was thrown from a Toyota Hiace bus which crashed on a section of Highway 2000 in the vicinity of the Whitewater housing scheme yesterday, killing five persons and leaving nine others injured. - RICARDO MAKYN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Rasbert Turner, Gleaner Writer
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine:
FIVE PERSONS were killed and nine others rushed to the hospital after a blown-out tyre caused a Toyota Hiace bus to flip several times while travelling along a section of Highway 2000 yesterday.
Four of the dead have been identified as 36-year-old Charmaine Thomas of Comma Pen, St. Elizabeth; 42-year-old Transport Authority employee Ernest Lewis of Christiana, Manchester; 34-year-old Milton Levy of Greenvale, Manchester; and the driver, 44-year-old Collymore Dawkins of a Cooreville Gardens address in St. Andrew. Up to last night the other passenger, a female, had not been identified.
TYRES BLOW OUT
Reports are that about 2:20 p.m., the minibus, filled with passengers and driven by Dawkins, was travelling from Kingston to Mandeville when, on reaching a section of the Highway 2000 toll road in the vicinity of the Whitewater housing scheme the left rear tyre blew out causing the bus to flip several times.
