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Minibus ends up in South Road canal
A Route 42 minibus apparently rolled into the South Road canal just after noon yesterday because the driver did not park it properly on the slope leading to the canal.
The minibus in the South Road canal.
The decals on the side of the minibus read ‘Rolling on Chromes,’ and prompted some degree of laughter from bystanders who joked that the minibus had lived up to its name and had ‘rolled’ into the canal on its chrome mag rims.
According to the owner and driver of the minibus, Carleton Ford, the bus was not working and was parked on the side of the road, as he was waiting for the mechanic to come to fix the vehicle.
After the mechanic had arrived, Ford attempted to start the minibus, but the minibus would not start, due to an exhausted battery.
Ford asked his uncle, who was also on the scene, to go for a pair of jumper cables so that they could jump-start the bus.
While waiting for his uncle to return with the cables, Ford said he went and sat in the back of the minibus, forgetting that he had disengaged the handbrake for the vehicle and had left the minibus in neutral.
While sitting in the back of the minibus, Ford said that he began to feel the minibus lurching forward “all of a sudden” and at this point he jumped out of the minibus and tried to hold it back, but to no avail.
According to Ford, he has been working as a minibus driver for approximately four years, and this was the first time that this has happened to him.
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