Driver dies in minibus

Aug 06, 2009 News

Some employees of the Edward B. Beharry Company got the shock of their lives when the driver of the vehicle that normally ferries them to work collapsed and died just before moving off.
Francis Anthony Austin, 61, of Princes Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, appeared to have suffered a heart attack while waiting on the Enmore Old Road, to transport the employees to work.
The workers made the discovery after the last employee had joined the bus and they were ready to depart for the company’s factory at the Ruimveldt Industrial Estate.
Kaieteur News understands that Austin would normally uplift the 32-seater bus from the company’s main office about 04:00 hours on workdays and travel to the East Coast Demerara to pick up the employees.
Sources said that he would normally park at a regular place and wait for all the employees to board the vehicle before heading back to the city. He would normally take a nap while doing so.
According to one of the employees, when he arrived to board the bus, he met two other workers who were already seated in the vehicle and the driver appeared to be asleep.
“Everybody know he does normally sleep. But when Harry (another employee) knock de window, he nah wake up. Den Harry turn and say is a dead man and everybody start come out de bus,” the employee stated.
“What I get to understand is that a lady say she see de bus turn around and de driver fumble up and he just drop in de seat,” he added.
He said that it appeared as if Austin was ailing since Tuesday because he was observed driving slower than he would normally do.
Another employee, Seon Gravesande, said, “I was coming and I see the people coming out of the bus, so I say, ‘I wonder if this bus break down?’ but when I come up nearer they tell me that he died, so I didn’t bother go in the bus.”
She said that thankfully Austin did not collapse while driving since it could have been dangerous for the passengers and other motorists.
‘Uncle Harry’, one of the elder employees, was sitting in the bus when the normal departure time arrived.
“De other passengers say, ‘Uncle Harry, wake up Austin leh we go’. I shaking de man and no response, I shake him again and there was no response. So I contacted our security office and the police at Cove and John,” he said.
Police subsequently arrived on the scene and carried out their investigations.
No marks of violence were seen on the body but investigators will still await the results of a post mortem examination before concluding their investigations.

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