FAITHS PEN, St Ann – Minister of Transport and Works, Mike Henry, has ordered an investigation into Friday night’s accident where a teenager was killed and about 40 other persons injured, after a Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus, transporting churchgoers plunged into a precipice in St Ann.

The dead girl has been identified as Jodian Henry, 16, a student at the Bridgeport High School in Portmore, St Catherine. She was pronounced dead at the Linstead Hospital where several other injured passengers were taken for treatment.

Thirty nine other passengers who sustained fractured bones, cuts and bruises to different parts of their bodies, were also transported to the St Ann’s Bay hospital. Many of them have since been released.

However, seven persons who were transferred to the Spanish Town hospital remain in serious but stable condition.

The bus was taking members of the Bayside New Testament Church in Portmore, to Moneague in St Ann, when the bus driver allegedly failed to negotiate a corner along the main road at Faiths Pen, shortly after nine and overturned into the precipice.

The driver fled the scene of the accident and is now being sought by police.