FOUR students and a pedal cyclist were yesterday injured along Spanish Town Road in Kingston yesterday morning when the drivers of two speeding motor cars lost control of their vehicles and mowed them down.

Police say the accident, which involved two Honda motor cars travelling towards the Six Miles area, occurred at about 8:00 am in the vicinity of the Red Stripe bottling plant.

The victims, whose ages ranged from 12 to 15 years, were all said to be students of the Tivoli Gardens High School.

Yesterday, Sergeant Valrie Levy of the Accident Reconstruction Unit in the Police Traffic Unit, told the Observer that the driver of one of the vehicles involved in the accident was being questioned by the Hunts Bay Police.

She said the students, one of whom was believed to have suffered serious injury, were taken to the Kingston Public Hospital.

There have been 241 accidents and 283 deaths on the roads since the start of the year. This, compared to 279 accidents and 329 deaths over the same period last year.