KINGSTON, Jamaica – The grandmother of two people involved in Sunday’s fatal crash along the PJ Patterson Highway has criticised the Spanish Town Hospital for the lack of a CT scan machine and ambulance.

“My two granddaughters, my niece, her son, and her daughter got into an accident. The rest of them are sick and in the hospital, at the Spanish Town Hospital, and she fi get a scan for their head, and them ago to say they don’t have the machine. Them no have no ambulance to carry them to the next hospital, and me think that part of slackness,” Esma Manhertz said.

She added that the family and the community have to raise funds to secure an ambulance to transfer her granddaughters to another hospital.

“See it deh, a walk me a walk a collect it. See it deh. A no lie me a tell. A beg me have to beg this $35,000. We have to chomp up the money. The whole family, because we don’t live bad. And chomp and chomp it up. And get a ambulance to move her,” she said.

Four people perished in the crash involving the grey 2002 Toyota Probox and a black Mercedes-Benz GLE53 motor car.

Both vehicles were reportedly travelling in an easterly direction along the toll road at a high rate of speed. The Probox driver lost control of the vehicle; it made contact with the median and overturned, coming to a stop on its side in the right lane.

The occupants of the Probox were in the process of exiting the damaged vehicle when the Benz ran into the vehicle and the occupants who were exiting the Probox.

The deceased have been identified as 22-year-old Tyesha Manhertz of 1A Golden Avenue, Kingston 7; 29-year-old Wendy Lammie of the same address; eight-year-old Tray Stewart of a similar address; and 27-year-old Andre McLeish of 9 Tavern Avenue. McLeish was the driver of the motor car.

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