LINSTEAD, St. Catherine:
RESIDENTS OF Kent Village, Bog Walk, yesterday staged a protest demanding the installation of proper guard rails at Flat Bridge, following the loss of two more lives in the Rio Cobre on Saturday evening.
A car with two persons aboard which was being towed by a truck, plunged into the murky waters of the Rio Cobre as the vehicles attempted to manoeuvre the bridge.
People who said they were eyewitnesses, told The Gleaner that the rope attached to the car snapped, and the smaller vehicle veered into the river.
The occupants of the car, police constable Andy Jones, 25, who was attached to the Fraud Squad, and Denise Hall, an employee of the Ocho Rios branch of the Victoria Mutual Building Society, drowned before they could be rescued from the car.
The St. Catherine Traffic Police told The Gleaner that the car that was travelling from Spanish Town towards Linstead where Miss Hall should have attended a Mother's Day function.
The protesters said in addition to the guard rails, speed bumps to slow traffic should be built at both ends of the bridge.
Just over a fortnight ago Nordia Kelly, 17, and Basil Chin, 28, both of Guy's Hill, drowned after their car plunged into the river.
