Latest update November 15th, 2024 1:00 AM
Five hospitalized after bus slams into parked truck
The mangled minibus after it slammed into the truck.
Five persons remain in hospital while 11 others were treated and sent away as a result of an accident on the Lusignan, East Coast Demerara Public Road on Saturday night.
The accident occurred when a mini bus heading to the city slammed into a stationary truck, which had reportedly developed mechanical problems.
Those admitted are the driver, Glendon Grandison, of Melanie Damishana; Loretta Wilson, 20; Quincy Daniels 19, Alisa English, a nurse, and 50-year old Eleave Oedath who is in the Intensive Care Unit.
Daniels and Wilson both suffered broken legs while the driver has an injured spine.
Oedath is said to have sustained severe internal injuries. Grandison, the driver, declined to comment on the accident, claiming that recalling the incident gives him a headache.
However, one passenger who was treated and sent away told this newspaper that the bus was heading west when the driver appeared to have been blinded by the bright lights of an oncoming vehicle.
“By de time de man dip he light, de bus done deh up into the truck which ain’t had no lights,” the passenger who did not wish to be named recalled. Daniels said that all he could remember was the bus slamming into something hard.
Wilson, who spoke to this newspaper from her hospital bed, said that she was on her way to work and was sitting in the conductor’s seat when the accident occurred.
She too could not recall what really happened, since she was speaking to someone on her cellular phone when the bus slammed into the truck.
The driver of the truck, however, told police that his vehicle was overheating so he had stopped to get some water for the radiator.
He claimed that he was on the other side of the road when he heard the loud impact of the crash and upon looking around, he saw that his truck was shifted several feet from its original position.
Then he saw the mangled front of the mini bus.
Several persons rushed to the scene and quick response by ambulance personnel on the East Coast of Demerara resulted in most of the injured being transported to the Georgetown Hospital.
Those treated and sent away are Sunildutt Singh of Strathspey, Kevin Brumell, Texwayne Burgess, Yolanda Thomas, Kelvin Balram, Malipa Mohan, Clepwyn Barrow, Nigel Elias, Michelle James, Deolall Ramnarine and Arif Hussein.
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