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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.
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