Toddler killed, 11 injured in Linden crash

Head on collision: Minibus BKK 5112 and the truck GNN 2507, which collided yesterday morning at Nottinghamshire, Old England, Linden killing two-year-old Malvin Hartman, of Coomacka Mines, Linden and injuring 11 others, including members of his family. (Photo by Cathy Richards)

A two-year-old was killed and 11 others were injured yesterday, after a minibus and a truck collided head-on in Linden.

Toddler Malvin Hartman, of Coomacka Mines, Linden, was trapped under the glove compartment of the bus, after it ran into the truck, which was travelling in the wrong lane at the time.

“I tell them look a baby trapped under deh,” said a bus driver, who helped pull the child’s mother from the wreckage, shortly after he arrived at