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I saw it after it happened!! D:

Your article stated that it was a runaway tour bus, with possibly failed brakes, of which the driver lost control, and it hit the taxi. Yet you go on to write that "the taxi did not give way to the Tour Bus". Really? What was the taxi supposed to do on that narrow road, turbo boost over the tour bus, like the car KiTT in the series Knight Rider?

I wish both drivers and tourists a speedy recovery.

I wish all tour busses be banned from our roads. They are simply too big and they are an extreme nuisance to other traffic.

What happens to these taxi drivers that are always driving tourist like a crazy man, running you off the road and cursing you also. They have to take there time and stop acting like they are money struck. The big tour bus drivers TAKES THEIR TIME while driving.

Taxi drivers today do not know the meaning of being a taxi driver. Most are money hungry, they do care about the safety of their pa**engers. Gimme the money (foreign) taxi drivers. In sweet sxm days the taxi drivers took their time with the tourists, showing off their beautiful and peacefull island. They took their TIME.

You have too much traffic on the Island. Too many big cars and trucks. It's only a 2x4 island you look retarded going in circles.Stop trying to keep up with big countries. This needed to be said. Get rid of some immigrants and cars. Sorry for the tour bus and the taxi driver and tourists. Hope all is well. There are those who are just having babies just to collect money from the government. These are not helping the island. They are not productive residents.Wake up St Martin you are too crowded with these narrow roads. Too many people not enough space,not enough jobs. Wonder if when disease start to spread you'll do something about it. Too late then. I wanted to say this for a long time. I am not saying this accident has bearing on this. But it is something your government should work on , to minimize incidents.

I don't see no hill in the pictures.
speed limits should be ENFORCED on the Island

There's a crazy steep hill leading down into Loterie Farm.

Have you ever been there?

gary

@really??
Didn't you just love Kit from Knight Rider? He was just the best car ever!!!!
We should have some like him here Keep us safe on and off the roads. lol, lol ;-)

The Dutch side government has spent a lot of tax money on building the port facilities and promotion of the island. It is now time that the government think of more ways to keep the cruise pa**engers on the Dutch side. Right now all the attractions are on the French side (Orient Bay, Butterfly Farm, Lotterie Farm, premier restaurants) and as such, all the business and dollars go to the French. Then the Dutch side government squeezes more money out of its citizens to put in the tourism sector. All the Dutch side is doing right now is spending money to send tourist to build up the financial coffers of the French side while its coffers remain near bare . The Dutch side government needs to rethink its tourism strategy and get more attractions for the Dutch side to keep more tourists and dollars on the Dutch side.

On the brighter side, those tourist got an ride of their lives, never to forget. They will have an adventure story to tell when they get back home. This can happen anywhere to anyone. Thank God, everyone came out alive.

@Think.. what you're saying is ridiculious and dumb, how about when french parents mostly people who collect money from the government change their EUROS to go shopping on the dutch side the french side and their NOT COMPLAINING!! Besides SXM IS ONE ISLAND SO WHAT IF PPL GO FROM FRENCH SIDE TO DUTCH SIDE or DUTCH SIDE TO FRENCH SIDE??? What ever happened to ONE ISLAND, ONE PPL? ''THINK'' YOU SHOULD SIT DOWN AND THINK BEFORE WRITING NO SENSE THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SUBJECT!!!

This accident teaches us a few lessons which we have to put in order of priority. So the question is what solution should be first applied: Keeping Dutch side money on the Dutch Side; matching raods and vehicles; reducing immigration; preventing the race for money; etc, etc. Instead of blaming others, watch yourselves and be an example, a role model to others

@ "Think:"

Are you for real????? I have been saying this for years ..... The French side will surpa** the Dutch side eventually.

Everytime Government or an investor tried to do something that MIGHT benefit the Dutch side, The NA and its ignorant supporters jumps up and condemn it. You don;t want amusement parks on your precious land that you are doing nothing with, you don't want foreigners opening businesses on your beaches to enhance the day stay for tourists (while I don't see any Locals doing it either), You try to kill your Hotel owners with all type of Labor/Union issues, we had a troly the taxi drivers beat it down. I can go on and on.

So don't blame anyone else but yourself and those you follow who don't have a clue as to how to run a tourism industry. I love Lottery Farm and was happy to hear that we (Dutch side) would have gotten our own. You dumb arse ignorant sheepish followers beating it down, now you want to complain bout the French side getting all the Money????

Get a damn life and wake up.

F... both of you! Only when it is in the interest of the French side do they know that it is one island! Other than that, they close off the border when they want and don't give a damn about anybody else. As far as exchanging Euros on the Dutch side, that is your choice because again it benefits you. Since the introduction of the Euros, everything is more expensive on that side, which is the only reason you shop over here. The Dutch side government has to start looking out for its side of the island, period! The French side government isn't putting money in the coffers of the Dutch side and vice versa. Neither are you paying my taxes for me! Yet, most of your citizens have jobs on the Dutch side while no Dutch citizens can have a job on the French side. People like you are no more than a bunch of parasites.

As for the 'jump on the bandwagon anytime to blame NA' idiot known as 'Hold up', you are not the only person with a mouth, so you go get an improvement on that miserable life you are obviously living. Every time you blame "NA and supporters", while you close your eyes to the fact that the DP now UPP party has been in government more than any other party in existence on St. Maarten. Maybe you think that by continually talking sh*t that eventually people will believe you. Guess what, THINK again, people are not as foolish as you are.
Before you write nonsense about the trolley, go ask the Taxi a**ociation how it will affect them. Don't feel that you know it all, because it is clear that you don't! Talk is cheap and you are so full of it!

To: "@ Hmmm & Hold up!:"

;-) Look like we touched a very sensitive nerve huh???? Anyhow, time WILL tell just how foolish people really are. ;-)

LMAO. Mr. Leopold James, I hope you read that comment and now see that Mr. Haar did not teach us anything new. Neither did he refer to ANY local SXM'r as such as is done, "on a daily basis", by we own to their own ;-) ;-)

@Think.. It is very easy to sit behind a computer and type shit that you don't even know about!! This same grown a** woman that you calling a "PARASITE" working and paying taxes too. My whole family from right here SXM. Now go suck a fart and die ;-) ;-)