YET another fatal motor vehicle crash took place in Clarendon yesterday, the second in as many days in that parish.

The police report that the lone casualty in the accident on the Halse Hall main road was Adrian Farqhuarson, a 16-year-old student of Bustamante High School.

The incident happened around 8:30 a.m.

According to the police, the route taxi in which Adrian was travelling was heading from Lionel Town to May Pen when it collided with a Toyota Corolla motor car being driven by 20-year-old Jedran Bennett of Water Lane, Clarendon.

Head-on collision

The police said Bennett overtook a line of traffic and drove head-on into the route taxi.

Adrian died instantly. His schoolmates, Nicholas Hamilton, Sheldon Lewis and Jermaine Grant, all 16, were injured and are in stable condition at the May Pen Hospital.

Steve Silver, driver of the taxi, was treated at the May Pen Hospital and released. Latoya Smith, an 18-year-old bartender from Kingston who was in the other vehicle, was also treated at hospital and released.

Bennett has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

On Monday, five persons were killed when two vehicles crashed along the Osborne Store main road. A sixth person in that accident, 38 year-old Dionette Dwyer-Chin of a St. Catherine address, died yesterday.