{"id":18797,"date":"2012-03-04T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=18797"},"modified":"2012-03-05T10:33:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:33:27","slug":"prison-busses-still-a-danger-to-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/prison-busses-still-a-danger-to-society","title":{"rendered":"Prison Busses Still a Danger to Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A prison officer and a police officer were rushed to hospital yesterday after two prison buses collided with a Mack truck on Eastern Road.<\/p>\n

The buses were carrying inmates to downtown courts around 9:45am when the accident occurred at the entrance of Mount Vernon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe extent of their injuries are not known at this time,\u201d said Inspector David Lockhart of the traffic division, while on scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of the inmates are accounted for and we can ensure the public that none of the prisoners at any time escaped, nor was any member of the public in jeopardy as a result of this collision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both buses were extensively damaged, police said.<\/p>\n

Lockhart said the prisoners were relocated into three private buses and escorted by police to courts.<\/p>\n

He did not confirm the total number of inmates being escorted nor did he provide details on the matters the inmates were connected with.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would like to generally say to members of the public, please drive safely and upon hearing a siren one must pull to the left to give way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lockhart said police have not determined who was at fault.<\/p>\n

He said the driver of the truck was being questioned.\u00a0 Lockhart assured that all standard police protocols were followed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also have one or two witnesses that are assisting in this investigation,\u201d Lockhart said.<\/p>\n

Last February, the police transport bus crashed into the prison bus when its brakes failed.<\/p>\n

Two prisoners and one guard were taken to hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite a new court at the prison, built to eliminate the need for obnoxiously dangerous prison bus trips, a prison bus crashed into a garbage truck after the brakes on the bus failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32,31,40,142,270,62],"class_list":["post-18797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-government","tag-incompetence","tag-prison","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}