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In­ves­ti­ga­tions are un­der­way in­to yes­ter­day’s fa­tal high­way crash that claimed the lives of Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) dri­ver Mun­saf Khan and SWAT Es­tate Po­lice Com­pa­ny of­fi­cer Rox­anne Phillip.

Speak­ing at the scene in Freeport yes­ter­day, Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our said pre­lim­i­nary re­ports in­di­cat­ed that as the bus pro­ceed­ed south along the Solomon Ho­choy High­way, short­ly af­ter the Freeport in­ter­change, a flatbed truck sud­den­ly pulled out from the shoul­der. In try­ing to avoid a col­li­sion, the PTSC bus crashed in­to the truck.

High­way Pa­trol of­fi­cers evac­u­at­ed 23 pas­sen­gers, and am­bu­lances took them and the truck dri­ver to the hos­pi­tal.