Members of the St. James Fire Department wash the Unity Hall main road following a fatal accident involving a white Hiace bus and a truck yesterday. The driver of the bus, Moses Russell, died, while the three tourists he was carrying (two women and a child) are nursing injuries. - CLAUDINE HOUSEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
WESTERN BUREAU:
A 48-YEAR-OLD tour operator was killed and three American tourists injured in a motor vehicle collision along the Unity Hall main road in St. James yesterday.
The dead man has been identified as Moses Russell of Orange Bay, Hanover.
The injured persons have been named as 35-year-old real estate operator Jelena Kalmanovsky, her daughter Anna Abramova, 15, and her three-year-old son Michael Field, all of Mandeleine, Illinois, in the United States.
The daughter suffered a broken arm while Ms. Kalmanovsky and her son sustained head injuries.
Constable Peter Salkey, Constabulary Communication Network liaison officer for St. James, said the cause of the collision, which occurred about 4:00 p.m., was unclear.
Russell was reportedly driving towards Montego Bay with the visitors in his Toyota Hiace bus when he collided with a Toyota Isuzu truck travelling in the opposite direction.
Personnel from the Traffic Department and the Accident Investigations and Reconstruction Unit (AIRU) are
investigating.
