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Agricola accident ‘hotspot’ chalks up another
The damaged minibus with an injured lad (Shaw
…several escape serious injury
Several people escaped serious injury following a two-vehicle smash up at the Agricola Public Road last evening, reminiscent of so many accidents at the same location some of which have claimed lives.
Shortly before 18.30 hrs yesterday, a route 42 minibus travelling from Georgetown to Grove along the East Bank Demerara Highway slammed into a motor-car that had just turned east into Agricola.
The driver of the minibus, BHH 7154, Ameer Shaw Khan, 44, of Wales, West Bank Demerara, told this newspaper that as he was approaching the intersection when he saw a car swerve quickly into his path and try as he might he could not avoid the collision.
“I start blowing me horn but he make sudden turn and I barely swing but we still knock up.”
Khan, who said that he has been a driver for some 22 years, and has been driving a minibus for 12 years, insisted that he was not wrong.
A passenger who was in the front seat of the bus supported his story.
Khan insists that the driver of the car PHH 3811, 25-year-old Cleon Benjamin of Station Street Kitty, was wrong.
Khan states that Benjamin made a sudden U-turn, narrowly missing two pedestrians in the process, and slammed into his bus “lashing it in de corner.”
Stating that it was his first road accident, he added ‘and is not my fault, the man drive straight into me!”
The Route 42 minibus was carrying Shaw’s son and 11 other passengers. There were no deaths, but two persons suffered minor injuries.
The mangled car
Shaw stated that if he had been driving over 50 kph, everyone in the bus might have died.
Benjamin on the other hand, told Kaieteur News that he was travelling from Georgetown to Agricola, but missed his turn off into the village.
Instead of stopping suddenly, he decided to continue driving and take the next turn-off to get back to his corner.
“This bus went real far. I could have cleared my turn. He was coming real fast,” Benjamin declared, adding that the minibus hit his vehicle twice.
“Now he come telling lies,” Benjamin objected, “Is not true that I nearly hit down anybody.”
The lone female passenger in Benjamin’s car also suffered minor injuries.
Meanwhile an eyewitness to the accident said that none of the vehicles was speeding but blamed what may have been a state of panic because of a large truck that was traversing the roadway behind the car driver.
She also said that Benjamin almost struck down pedestrians.
The eyewitness said that the Benjamin was already at the corner almost stationary when the truck blew its horn loudly causing even pedestrians on the road to flee.
It was surmised that this may have caused Benjamin to try to get out of the way and the minibus slammed into the car.
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