Death crash bus driver gets four years

May 22, 2009 News

A minibus driver from Plaisance was sent to jail for four years and six months by magistrate Yohhahnseh Cave three years after causing the deaths of three school-aged children in a minibus smash-up on the East Coast Demerara Highway.
Marvin Williams was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving, resulting from the September 29, 2006 accident, in which Quincy Junor, Keisha Crawford and Tiffany Daniels lost their lives.
The evidence presented during the trial revealed that Williams was driving under the influence of alcohol and at a fast rate of speed, despite being told to slow down, and crashed into another mini bus near the Ocean View International Hotel.
The dead were all passengers in the bus he was driving.
In handing down the sentence, Magistrate Cave said that he hopes that other drivers would take it as a warning to desist from their dangerous practices.
He said that he uses the East Coast roadways every day and would observe several drivers breaching the traffic laws.
Williams, for his part, apologised to the family members of the dead as they were present in court.
For this he was commended by Magistrate Cave who expressed his satisfaction that the apology was given openly.
Family members of the victims expressed relief that the matter is over.
Nadia Junor, a sister of one of the accident victims, told this newspaper that she felt good about the sentence but at the same time she was sorry for Williams who she said was a ‘good guy’ trying to earn an honest living.
However, she pointed out that if he had only listened to one of the passengers who had warned him to slow down, all three of the victims would have been alive today.
“But he was under the influence of alcohol and he thought that he could do matrix with the bus. He did the crime so he has to serve the time,” Junor said.
She echoed the Magistrate’s sentiments that what happened to Williams should serve as a warning.
According to Junor who still uses public transportation every day to and from Plaisance, drivers continue to drink and drive.
She said that she has had cause to ask them to slow down, even reminding them of what happened to her brother.
“It is just like throwing water on a duck’s back,” she stated.
She recalled that her uncle suffered a similar fate as her brother as a result of a drunk driver. That matter which began in 2005 is still engaging the court.
“They don’t know what we are going through, having lost a loved one. I had my uncle in 2005 and my brother in 2006.
My brother’s matter came and finished before my uncle’s,” Junor said.

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