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The Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion has launched an in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent in which a woman was in­jured af­ter falling from one of its bus­es along the San Fer­nan­do to Guayagua­yare route, in the vicin­i­ty of Palmyra.

Video footage of the in­ci­dent, which has been cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia, shows the woman falling from the bus as it moved off. The footage shows the ve­hi­cle run­ning over her hand be­fore com­ing to a stop.

In a state­ment, the cor­po­ra­tion said it ini­ti­at­ed an in­ter­nal re­view in keep­ing with its stan­dard op­er­at­ing pro­ce­dures and con­firmed that the mat­ter is al­so un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice. PTSC said it is co­op­er­at­ing ful­ly with the po­lice probe.