Assistant Commissioner of Police Gary McKenzie - FILE PHOTO
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ACP Gary McKenzie
The police are denying claims that a high speed chase was involved in Monday's crash which claimed the lives of two children on Bustamante Highway in Clarendon.
The victims, a boy and a girl, attended Lennon High in the parish. Two other students remain hospitalised. One of them is said to be in critical condition.
ACP Gary McKenzie, Commanding Officer for the Public Safety & Traffic Enforcement Branch, speaking on Radio Jamaica's Beyond the Headlines, said the sequence of events started when a joint team initially tried to pursue the first car, a Subaru, which was suspected to be operating as a taxi illegally.
The pursuit starting in the May Pen town centre, after the driver of the car disobeyed the signal of the police that he should stop the vehicle, but that the team abandoned the effort shortly afterwards, "because of the manner of driving."
"Several minutes after, news came to the police that a crash had occurred (and) when they went to th scene, it was observed that this was the same vehicle that actually drove awa," he said.
ACP McKenzie said investigations revealed that three vehicles were involved in the tragic crash, starting with the one that was initially being pursued by the authorities.
That car, he said, "was speeding along Bustamante Highway when it collided with the rear of a medium truck; it was displaced to the right, where it overturned, head-on into a Toyota Probox (car)..."
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