CLARENDON, Jamaica — A major traffic accident left at least 41 people with injuries on a Wednesday morning in central Jamaica, after a passenger coaster bus crashed into a concrete road median, local law enforcement confirmed in an official statement to Observer Online.
Emergency responders and police were dispatched to the crash site, located at the traffic stoplight intersection marking the May Pen entrance to the Williamsfield Toll Road, shortly after the collision was reported at 7:57 a.m. local time.
In the hours following the incident, visual documentation of the crash spread widely across social media platforms. The shared images and footage show the yellow passenger bus heavily damaged, with its front end compressed against the solid concrete median after the impact.
As of the latest update from local authorities, investigators have not yet been able to verify whether a second vehicle was involved in triggering the collision. Emergency medical teams have transported all injured individuals to nearby medical facilities for treatment, though no update on the severity of their injuries has been released to the public as of this reporting.