Crash leaves tour bus operator dead
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May 18, 2022

Crash leaves tour bus operator dead

ST JAMES, Jamaica – A fatal crash on Wednesday evening caused a massive build up of traffic on Queen’s Drive in Montego Bay, St James.

One man died as a result of injuries sustained in the crash. He has been identified as 37-year-old Richardo Edwards, a tour bus operator, of a Flankers address in St James.

Reports reaching OBSERVER ONLINE are that minutes before 7:00pm, Edwards was driving a Volkswagen Golf motor car and had just exited the round-a-bout at the airport, proceeding towards Flankers when he collided with a flatbed trailer.

The trailer was said to be stationary at the time of the incident.

The deceased received a number of injuries and was trapped by the wreckage. Firefighters from the Ironshore station had to extricate him but he subsequently succumbed to the injuries.

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