A 30-year-old stu­dent died yes­ter­day while at­tempt­ing to cross the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) in Mt Hope. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, Pa­tri­cia Per­ry Bartholomew, of Gas­par­il­lo, was at­tempt­ing to cross the PBR to ac­cess the East­ern Main Road at around 2.40 pm when she was struck by a black Suzu­ki Liana head­ing east along the route.

Bartholomew was thrown sev­er­al feet in­to the air be­fore land­ing on the road­way. She was pro­nounced dead on the scene by a Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer. Eye­wit­ness­es said min­utes be­fore the ac­ci­dent, the stu­dent was seen ex­it­ing a PTSC bus near the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex.

Bartholomew, was a first-year stu­dent of the School of Busi­ness and Com­put­er Sci­ence's (SBCS) Champs Fleurs cam­pus and was pur­su­ing a de­gree in risk man­age­ment. She was at­tempt­ing to cross the bus route in or­der to at­tend a study ses­sion at the cam­pus li­brary, po­lice said. The dri­ver of the ve­hi­cle, a fe­male pris­ons of­fi­cer, was de­tained by po­lice.

The woman who is not the hold­er of a bus route pass was is­sued a $2,000 tick­et for the il­le­gal use of the re­strict­ed road­way by of­fi­cers of the Tran­sit Po­lice who vis­it­ed the scene. She was lat­er re­leased from po­lice cus­tody af­ter pro­vid­ing a writ­ten wit­ness state­ment to in­ves­ti­ga­tors, while her ve­hi­cle was towed to the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion. In­spec­tor Bernard, Cpl Fur­longe and PC Roberts vis­it­ed the scene and are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.