The country was again spared a horrific catastrophe when a tanker filled with oil, plowed into a Jamaica Urban Transit Company Bus (JUTC) filled with passengers and another large delivery truck this morning.

There were no fatalities arising from the three vehicle collision on Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston, but several JUTC passengers were injured.

Piercing screams reverberated from the 22A JUTC bus heading to Spanish Town in the aftermath of the impact.

The sounds of terror reflected the fear, the passengers felt when they realized that the highly-flammable tanker could have exploded.

They scrambled through air vents in the roof of the bus as well as windows.

Persons claiming to be eyewitnesses from nearby Greenwich Town and employees of the commercial area, said the JUTC bus had stopped to allow the delivery truck to reverse into Industrial sales Limited, when the speeding oil tanker which had just loaded up plowed into both vehicles.

A few metres away, tears flowed from two women, who gave their names as Donna Dixon and Michelle.

They were seated in a marked police vehicle waiting to be taken to hospital.

Two schoolboys, too frightened to speak were seated beside them.

The JUTC personnel took the names of the injured passengers even as police manned the area and fire personnel took precautionary measures as the toiled to extricate the three vehicles, the damaged front still rubbing dangerously on each other.

For the past two hours, the side of the Marcus Garvey Drive Dual Carriageway leading into Three Miles has been blocked.