Glenroy Sinclair, Staff Reporter
THE TRAILER driver implicated in Tuesday's fatal motor vehicle accident along the Spanish Town Road in Kingston, yesterday turned himself in at the Hunts Bay Police Station in St. Andrew.
Reports reaching The Gleaner are that Khamal Fields was accompanied by his attorneys, Barry Frankson and Earl Witter. Up to press time last night, he was yet to be charged, but was still in police custody.
In the meantime, the official count of the fatalities from Monday's accident now stands at four, with 18 persons hospitalised. The deceased persons have been identified as Cedric Simpson, a resident of Montego Bay, St. James; Percival Buck, the driver of the ill-fated Coaster bus, who was also a resident of Bunkers Hill, Trelawny; 63-year-old Lena Smith of Norwood, St. James; and Gloria Chambers, 58, of Forester Road, Kingston 13.
The owner of the trailer which crashed into the bus was questioned by the police on Wednesday.
Preliminary investigations suggest that at least two trailer trucks were speeding along Spanish Town Road towards the Portia Simpson Miller Square, when one of them got out of control and ran across the road into the opposite lane. The trailer slammed into a van, before hitting the Coaster bus which was loaded with passengers and heading towards the western parish of Hanover.
The police have since collected statements in relation to the accident and are now in the process of picking up at least two other trailer drivers who they believe can assist them with their investigation.
