JUTC to pay $160 Million to Injured Passengers

Attorney-at-law, Shawn Kinghorn this morning served statutory demand on the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) for $160 million.

This has resulted from a claim filed by 30 of the more than 40 passengers were injured in an accident in Faith’s Pen St. Ann while they were on a church trip on October 15, 2010.

The statuary demand means that if the JUTC does not pay the money in 31 days, Mr Kinghorn can apply to the supreme court to wind up the company to recover the money.

Mr. Kinghorn says he represents 32 passengers. The other two cases will go before the supreme court for assessment of damages.

He says the parties settled the claims for the 30 passengers. They went before supreme court judge, Brian Sykes and got a formal order that the matter has been settled for the 30 passengers.

When the matter was first filed, JUTC had a filed a defense denying liability saying the company was not responsible. The JUTC had said the driver was only allowed to drive the buses inside the depot and not on the road.

A 16-year-old school girl, Jodian Henry died when the bus overturned along the Faith’s Pen main road while heading to a church event in Moneague, St. Ann.

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