UPDATE | Father and daughter among three killed in Westmoreland crash
Published:Saturday | May 11, 2024 | 9:30 AM
A 14-year-old student and her father are among three people killed in a motor vehicle crash along Bay Road in Little London, Westmoreland on Friday night.
The victims are all from the parish.
The police have identified them as 48-year-old Alwyne Savariau, a welder from Friendship and his daughter 14-year-old Shanique of Strawberry district.
The third deceased is 43-year-old Owen Barnes, a manager of Good Hope.
Shanique was a student of Godfrey Stewart High in the parish.
The police say about 9:40 p.m., a Toyota Hiace bus and a Toyota Corolla motor car were travelling in opposite directions along the roadway, when the two vehicles collided head-on.
The injured persons were transported to hospital where the drivers of both vehicles, along with Shanique, who was a passenger on the bus, were pronounced dead.
Six other persons from the bus are being treated for minor injuries, the police said in a statement on Saturday morning.
Earlier Inspector Coya Williams, acting commander for the Negril and the Little London police area, explained that the bus, which was heading towards Negril "failed to keep left after negotiating a corner and collided with the car that was travelling towards Savanna-la-Mar"/
The persons on the bus were reportedly heading to Negril on a crab-hunting expedition.
Meanwhile, another child died in a motor vehicle crash in Portmore on Friday.
He was hit after he allegedly walked into the path of a car that was travellng along New Lands main road about 6:30pm, according to the St Catherine South police.
On Friday afternoon, the Road Safety Unit reported that 149 persons have been killed in 129 crashes since the start of the year. The two latest incidents are not included.
It said fatalities have decreased by four per cent while fatal crashes decreased by nine per cent, compared with the similar period last year.
- Albert Ferguson
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