Family Killed in Tragic Accident Near Spanish Town

[Cultcha]

TORONTO - There are reports that three members of a Toronto-area family are among four people who were killed in a collision in Jamaica.

The Jamaica Gleaner says the family awoke Wednesday morning to find two-year-old Ronaldinho Dixon not breathing.

The boy's father Garieno Dixon, 27, mother Diane, 32, and 45-year-old grandmother, Marie Myrie-Smith of Jamaica, decided to rush him to hospital.

Less than five minutes from Myrie-Smith's home, all four were killed when their car collided head-on with a truck while trying to overtake a line of traffic.

Myrie-Smith's husband, Gerald, 42, realized they had left their cellphones and took a taxi to meet them at the hospital, but was stopped at the accident site.

The Gleaner says Smith got out of the taxi and walked up to the car, and realized that it was the one transporting his wife and family members.

"I could not believe it was them," he told the Gleaner. "I could not believe that they would all be dead."

[RichD]

Re: Family Killed in Tragic Accident Near Spanish Town

very sad

[RichD]

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4 family members killed in road crash
BY KIMMO MATTHEWS Observer staff reporter [email protected]
Thursday, January 05, 2012




FOUR members of one family, including a two-year-old boy, died yesterday in a motor vehicle accident along the Old Harbour Main Road in St Catherine. They have been identified as 45-year-old Marie Myrie-Phillips, her son Garina Dixon, 27, his wife Diane Dixon, 32, and their child Nekeil.
The Dixons and their two-year-old child were visiting from Canada. Myrie-Phillips, in the meantime, lived in Willowdene, St Catherine.
The mangled wreck of the ill-fated Toyota Corolla in which the four family members died yesterday. (Photos: Garfield Robinson)
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According to the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN), Garina was driving a Toyota Corolla motor car, with the three others aboard, towards Spanish Town when the vehicle collided head-on with an International truck that was travelling in the opposite direction. The accident occurred at the Horizon Park intersection.
"The Toyota Corolla motor car was extensively damaged and its occupants sustained multiple injuries and were taken to hospital where they were pronounced dead. The driver of the motor truck however was not injured," the CCN said.
Family members told the Observer the child had developed breathing complications while at home and was being taken to the Spanish Town Hospital for treatment.
"The father, in a desperate bid to save the child, jumped into his Toyota motor car with his wife and mother and rushed out to reach the hospital, unaware that the trip would be their last," a grieving family member told the Observer after the crash.
One family member said the victims had to be cut from the crumpled vehicle.
The news of the deaths was especially hard for Myrie-Phillips's husband, Gerald, who had reached home just a few minutes after the family left for the hospital.
"Upon reaching home, he saw that his wife left her phone and was rushing to bring the instrument to her when he saw the mangled wreck and later learnt that his family members were victims of the crash," said a family friend, who disclosed that he has since been admitted to hospital after suffering from a nervous breakdown.
Philip Chamberlain, a long-time friend of Garina, said that it was only Tuesday that he assisted a group of people who were involved in an accident.
"He did not know the victims in the accident, but that was just the type of people they were, always loving and caring," said Chamberlain.
Yesterday scores of residents who had gathered at the home of the victims wept openly.
Meantime, the accident resulted in a huge pile-up of traffic along the Old Harbour main road.
The deaths brought to eight the number of persons who had died on the roads during the first four days of the year.


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[Magician]

Re: Family Killed in Tragic Accident Near Spanish Town

Tragic.

[Wendy]

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I know this is a situation where thesae peopel were rushing to the hospital but as dere is Gad dem kina ovateking weh dem people do a Jamaica is OUTRAGEOUS!!


It was saaaame complaint I had when I was down there.. People tink dem invisible or someting and I just do not get the lack of caution exercised on the roads.

I am not lying but unu coulda did hear seh mi ina wan a dem accident to cause a soh wan taxi man a ova tek roun di carn outta Flat Bridge and some rahtid Brakes haffi draw fi avoid him. Mi seh mi did si Jesas flash in front a mi a tell yuh.


This is tragic but di bad ting is bad drving is far too common dung deh. I have no clue what dem tinking a ova tek when dem cyaan si cyar a come roun carna .. Cho

[Pepper]

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This car is a mangled mess

I wonder if they even had time to realize what was about to happen?

[Suesumba]

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no ambulance?
no police?

[RichD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">no ambulance? </div></div>

nope...rare ting.


yuh nuh hear dr dudd always sey the number of fatalities (be it from crime or accident) is inflated because of the lack of this type of facility

[RichD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
no police? </div></div>

you have to go pick them up

[Wendy]

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Dats not true Rich .. I saw police respond to a few accidents while I was there.. and who do you think &quot;clean up&quot; the bodies from the scene?

To be honest every time mi hear di sirens I found myself looking up to see what vehicle it is .. and there were ambulances and one day even wan bright red Fiyah truck mi si a speed a way to some place. It noh dat bad. (di Fiyah truck dem boasy noh hell )

[sistactry]

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tell dem Wendy, caaa me see nuff ambulances out deh to, but in Ja the ppl are so ready and dem do it all de time, instead of waiting for police, dem pick up de accident victims and rush dem to hospital dem self....

my niece did born inna one taxi, when dem did a rush de modder to hospital

[RichD]

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so call dem and wait




i have a fren who setting up a private ambulance service down there now...subscription ting.