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The National Road Safety Council (NRSC) has raised concern over the number of young people being killed in road crashes, and the implications their deaths can have on Jamaica’s development.
The concern follows yesterday’s two-vehicle collision along the Salt Marsh Main Road in Trelawny, which claimed the lives of three people, including 15-year-old Tashanti Jones.
She was a grade 10 student of Muschett High School in the parish.
NRSC Vice-Chairman, Dr. Lucien Jones explained that with Tashanti’s death, 20 young people between the ages of 0 and 18 years have died in road crashes so far this year.
He lamented that this statistic is double last year’s figure.
A total of 294 people have died on the nation’s roads this year.
