BLEEDING SPEED - Crashes burden health sector
INJURIES RESULTING from motor-vehicle crashes are costing the health sector hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Last year, there were 14,069 visits to hospitals islandwide for treatment for injuries resulting from traffic crashes. That is an increase...
BLEEDING SPEED - Walking into Danger
TRAFFIC DEATHS are not confined to persons speeding in motor vehicles and breaking other rules of the road. Pedestrians consistently represent a large share of crash fatalities, data from the Road Safety Unit of the Ministry of Transport and Works indicate...
'More men than women are dying'
IT IS said that at the inquest into the world's first traffic death in 1896, the coroner remarked, "This must never happen again." More than 112 years later, emergency medical technicians, doctors and coroners across the world have thousands of motor-vehicle injuries...
Accidents, congestion impacting productivity
Local business groups are not sure how the day-to-day congestion and increasing traffic accidents are affecting productivity.President of the Jamaica Manufacturers Association (JMA), Omar Azan, says while the impact they would have is clear, no analysis...
Crashes claimour sportsmen
Hundreds of Jamaicans are killed yearly in accidents on our roads and sportsmen of high repute are among those to have met this fate. Since 2001, the country has buried four national footballers who have died as a result of motor vehicle accidents....
Killancholly accused took cop to weapon
The trial of the man accused of the murder of three children at Killancholly, St Mary, in 2005 entered its third day yesterday with a policeman testifying that on February 8, 2005, the accused showed him where the knife he used was buried...
'Everyone thought I was dead'
Enthrose Campbell is thankful she survived to tell the tale of a devastating hit-and-run accident.In October 1991, little did Campbell know that her life would take a dramatic turn. In an interview with The Gleaner, Campbell, then a teacher at Wolmer's Girls' School...
Don't drink and drive!
Be extra careful this Christmas! Alcohol and drug use could increase the number of road accidents. University of the West Indies psychiatrist Dr Jeffrey Walcott said these substances affect the ability of users to make prudent decisions...
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