Howard Campbell, Gleaner Writer

Scores of curious onlookers converge on the scene of yesterday's fatal crash involving a Toyota Coaster bus and a Honda Civic motor car at the Cooreville Gardens-Duhaney Park intersection along the busy Washington Boulevard. Two persons were confirmed dead while four were rushed to hospital. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer

AN EARLY-morning auto accident at a busy Washington Boulevard intersection yesterday resulted in the death of two persons and injuries to four others.

Sergeant Jubert Llewellyn of the Constabulary Communication Network said the accident took place at 6:30 at the Duhaney Park/Cooreville Gardens crossing.

A Toyota Coaster bus, driven by 30-year-old Flavios Foulkes, was heading for Spanish Town when it collided with a red Honda Civic motor car that was exiting the Cooreville Gardens neighbourhood.

In police custody

The bus mowed downseveral commuters who were standing at a bus stop just metres away. Foulkes is now in police custody while the driver of the Honda has been hospitalised.

There were no passengers in the bus or car.

Inspector Spencer Lattor, sub-officer at the Duhaney Park Police Station, identified the deceased as 11-year-old Abbey-Gail Lugg of Duhaney Park who attended the Greater Portmore Primary School.

The body of the other deceased, said to be badly dismembered, had not been identified at press time.

Both died on impact, while four other persons sustained serious injuries and were taken to the Spanish Town and Kingston Public hospitals.

Paulette Forbes, a newspaper vendor, said she was selling at the time of the accident. She told The Gleaner that she had helped Abigail cross to the other side of the road just minutes earlier.

Forbes discovered a gruesome scene when she went over to the destroyed bus stop.

"When a go over there the little girl cut up, har foot chop off and the whole a here so (abdominal area) bus' up," she related. "People jus' dey pon de groun' a dead."

Hours after the incident, there was still a crowd at the site. Remnants from the accident, including motor vehicle parts and bloody clothing, were strewn across the intersection.

At the nearby Duhaney Park police station, relatives and friends of those presumed dead waited anxiously for updates. Some wept uncontrollably in the lobby; others trembled and fought back tears as Inspector Lattor pulled items from bags that belonged to the victims.

This is the second major auto-accident at the intersection of Duhaney Park and Cooreville Gardens in just under five years. In October 2002, five persons, including two infants, were killed there when the car in which they were travelling, collided with another vehicle.

A policeman pulls a caution tape across the scene of yesterday's fatal accident involving a Toyota Coaster minibus and a Honda motor car at the Duhaney Park, Cooreville Gardens intersection at Washington Boulevard. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer