Parents Demand Investigation into School Van Accident on Braggs Hill in St Joseph
February 19, 2024
Parents demand an urgent investigation into a serious accident involving students on a Transport Augmentation Programme van. Driver reportedly went off-route, leading to a dangerous crash.
Parents of children attending Grantley Adams Memorial School in St Joseph are demanding an urgent investigation by the Transport Board and police into a serious accident which occurred late Friday while a group of students were on board a Transport Augmentation Programme (TAP) van.
They told the Daily Nation the driver went “off-route” and drove the vehicle up the treacherous Braggs Hill, also in St Joseph, where it suddenly careened down the hill before slamming into a wall next to a gully.
What has the parents even more incensed is that the driver subsequently drove off “without checking on the safety of the children or waiting for the police to arrive”.
A parent whose 17-year-old son was on board said that about ten children who were stranded at the school around 5:55 p.m., were instructed to get into the TAP van which was going to Bridgetown because the next available bus was leaving the terminal at 6 p.m. (MB)
