11 students have been hospitalized, one in critical condition, following a three-vehicle crash along the Rose Hall Main Road in St. James yesterday.

A woman who was reportedly helping to direct traffic along the road died in the crash.

Police have identified her as 22-year-old Bianca Wallace – an equipment operator of Lilliput, St. James.

Head of the Police’s Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch (PSTEB), Senior Superintendent Lloyd Darby told IRIE FM News that some 13 persons were injured in the crash including the 11 students.

He said the injured students attend Cornwall College, Mount Alvernia High and the Harris Memorial School.

SSP Darby said the students were aboard a Hiace motor bus which crashed into a tractor.