Jamaica: Motor car driver that crashed and killed a woman in a minibus charged with manslaughter
The driver of the motor car that crashed into a minibus in the Bog Walk Gorge that resulted in the death of a woman has been charged with manslaughter.
The crash happened about 9:30 a.m. on June 8.
Twenty-one-year-old Malik Winter, a labourer of a Cheesefield, Linstead address in St Catherine, was charged on Friday and is scheduled to appear in court on Friday, June 18.
He is charged with the death of 59-year-old Valerie Ennis, a labourer of the Whitehouse Housing Scheme in the parish.
The police reported that Ennis was among passengers in a Toyota Hiace minibus heading towards Linstead from Spanish Town.
It is further reported that while travelling along the roadway, a Toyota Fielder motor car, which was being driven by Winter, overtook a line of traffic and crashed into the minibus.
Ennis, who was ejected from the minibus and was taken from the river by divers, was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The impact caused the Hiace to careen into the Rio Cobre.
At least eight persons, including Winter and a passenger in the Toyota Fielder, sustained injuries.
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