'Not Nice' crash claims another Holmwood student

ANOTHER HOLMWOOD Technical High School student who was a passenger in infamous 'Not Nice' minibus died.

Melissa Doeman, 15, succumbed to her injuries yesterday at the University Hospital of the West Indies.

Her death brings to four the number of students to have died from the crash. An adult who was operating as conductor also died.

"It continues to be difficult for us," Holmwood's principal Paul Bailey told The Gleaner.

He said plans are being put in place for Doeman's fourth-form classmates to receive counselling.

Venecia Buckle, a sixth-form student; Lyonsia Whyte, a grade-nine student; and Patrine Clarke, all of Trelawny addresses, died in the crash on April 7 after the minibus in which they were travelling to school slammed into a wall, two miles north of Christiana in Manchester.