MONTEGO BAY, St James - The truck driver involved in Wednesday's fatal three-vehicle collision along the Rose Hall main road in the second city turned himself in to the police yesterday.

The man, who fled the scene following the death of Chinelle Bent, a 15-year-old student of Holland High School in Trelawny and the injury of nine others, reported to the police yesterday morning.

He has not been arrested but police say their investigation into the fatal crash continues.

Bent, of Greenwood, St James, was killed and the nine others injured when a Toyota Camry motor car, registered 8467 FD, travelling from Falmouth towards Montego Bay collided with a truck as the car attempted to make a U-turn in the vicinity of the Palmyra Resorts.

The truck reportedly got out of control and hit a Townace bus in which Bent was a passenger, sending the bus into a ditch.
The police in St James also detained, questioned and released some 20 persons from the Anchovy area yesterday, as it continued its investigations into a spate a robberies and murders in the area.

According to the commanding officer for the parish Superintendent Steve McGregor, the police has stepped up its surveillance of certain communities - Anchovy/Wiltshire Mount Carey, Tucker and Irwin and the outskirts of Granville - which have seen an upsurge in crimes with three persons shot dead last week.

According to McGregor, these areas are not traditional hot spots and the police will continue surveillance and patrols as part of its wider strategy to contain crime in the parish, which has seen an increase in five murders committed in the parish compared to the corresponding period last year.