Slippery road injures four

The flooded Sir Florizel Glasspole Highway in east Kingston proved too much for two female drivers yesterday with both losing control of their vehicles hours after each other.

In the first incident, the driver of a white Nissan Sentra motor car lost control of the vehicle after it skidded on the wet road. The vehicle hit a metal post before coming to rest in the median.

The driver of the vehicle, two other women and a baby, who were all in the vehicle, received multiple injuries and were taken to hospital.

Up to press time, there was no word from the hospital on the condition of all four.

Their names have been withheld.

Another incident

Hours later, while the police were still processing that accident scene, another female driver lost control of her gold Honda Fit motor car in the same area.

"I changed lanes to avoid the water (on the road) but then I saw the crashed car and moved over again and as I stepped on the brake, the car just start skidding," the woman told The Gleaner as tears flowed down her face despite the car stopping before hitting anything.

With the motor car now facing the direction it was coming from, the obviously shaken woman was lectured by the police before being allowed to continue on her journey to Harbour View.

The heavy rainfall yesterday left flood water on several sections of the highway, which is the only connection from the heart of Kingston to the Norman Manley International Airport.

- A.H.