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Survivors blame pick-up driver
The Mini-bus
Survivors of Wednesday’s smash-up on the Kwakwani trail have all blamed the pickup driver for causing the tragedy in which two people were killed and 15 others injured.
The accident claimed the lives of Rusal employee Herman Wade, called ‘Toots’, and 42-year-old Terry Budhburg of Lamp Island.
Survivors George Shakespeare, 43, Glendon Shakespeare, Clive Lagadoo, 41, Otis Conway, 36, and Mark Adams, 37, are all patients in the Male Surgical ward.
The other injured are 10-year-old Sherwyn Sealey, who is admitted to the Pediatric Ward, Lindon Barkoye, Shefton Jones, Raymond Welshman and Lambert Daniels, were all injured in the accident.
George Shakespeare and Clive Lagadoo, who were passengers in the pickup, told Kaieteur News that it was the driver of the pick-up who swerved into the path of the minibus that Adams was driving.
The Pick-up
“The pick-up driver was speeding…..and he slam into the bus,” Shakespeare said. Lagadoo, who sustained injuries to the right leg, neck, and hands said that the pick-up driver had stopped and offered him a drop to the Kwakwani waterfront.
But although the driver was speeding, none of the occupants cautioned him.
Shakespeare and his cousin Glendon also told a similar tale, while admitting that they never asked the driver to slow down.
Mark Adams, the minibus driver, said that he was taking workers to Aroaima when disaster struck.
“I was on the left side and….and I see this pickup approaching real fast.”
The man said that he tried to swerve away but the pick-up slammed head-on into his vehicle. He received injuries to his hand, foot and two of his ribs were broken. Adams said that he has been a bus driver for the past four years and was never involved in an accident before.
A Ministry of Agriculture vehicle which was in the vicinity of the accident assisted in transporting the injured persons to the Kwakwani Hospital.
Wade and about 15 other workers attached to Rusal Bauxite Company at Aroaima, were travelling to work for the night shift on a bus operated by the bauxite company.
The pick-up driver who is only known as Sherwin of the Kuruduni Logging Company is still in police custody.
The vehicles were on the trail used by miners, loggers and people traveling to and from the bauxite company.
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