Call comes after two female students struck by vehicles, one fatally
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Egeton Newman
With recent motor vehicle crashes resulting in the deaths of children occurring locally, President of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), Egeton Newman, has called on motorists to drive more carefully on the roads.
Marla Richards, an 11-year-old grade seven student of Vere Technical High School in Clarendon, was the latest child to become a crash victim since the start of the year. She was hit by a bus while attempting to cross the road in Kemps Hill district in the parish on Tuesday.
Another grade seven student of the same school was hit by a taxi near the school gate while she waited on transportation to go home. She was treated and released from hospital with minor injuries.
Newman, while addressing a TODSS virtual meeting last week, pointed to the two incidents in making his call to motorists.
"Please, for heaven sake, drive safely on our roads," he said.
"We want to send our condolences to the family of that young student in Clarendon who was hit down, I understand, by a bus.... We have to take it easy on our roads," Newman added.
He also sent sympathies to the student who was injured after being hit by a taxi the same day that Marla was struck by the bus.
In responding to calls that have been renewed for a rural transportation system for school children, Newman said some of his operators may lose their income if such a system is established.
"... But if we have to do so, let us do so. Life is important," he stated.
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