Latest update January 7th, 2025 12:58 AM
One dead, four injured after bus, car collision
Thirty-one-year-old Ravi Singh of Montrose, East Coast Demerara, became the country’s latest road fatality yesterday, adding to the steadily growing list of vehicle fatalities so far for this year.
Singh succumbed to massive head injuries after his Toyota AT 212 motor car crashed head on into a minibus that was heading in the opposite direction along the main East Coast Demerara highway in the vicinity of Vryheid’s Lust.
The mangled car outside the police station
Singh’s vehicle also ended up hitting an elevated concrete pavement after the collision.
The driver of the minibus, who was identified as Khemraj Singh, was briefly pinned in the vehicle, sources said.
Up to press time, Singh was still in the operating theater of the Georgetown Public Hospital. Hospital sources yesterday told this publication that man suffered two crushed legs, chest and other injuries.
This newspaper was told that Singh was also suffering from internal bleeding.
Kaieteur News understands that at the time of the accident, the five occupants of the minibus were heading to Meadow Bank wharf to purchase fish.
The injured were identified as Manoj Singh, 45, of 215 Martyr’s Ville, East Coast Demerara; Suraj Singh, 43, of Annandale, East Coast Demerara; Ramjaidra Lall, 46, of 95 Buxton East Coast Demerara; and Shante Persaud 32, of Vigilance, East Coast Demerara. They were all treated and sent away from the hospital.
At the dead man’s residence, his uncle, Khamraj Surujpaul, said that he is puzzled at the absence of blood in his nephew’s car.
Surujpaul said that his nephew had a gaping hole in the forehead, but yet no blood was in the vehicle.
The man said that all of the blood was on the road where his nephew’s body was found.
He said that from the reports he received, the bus turned dangerously into the path of Singh’s car.
However, Singh’s relatives said that he related that the he saw the car swaying coming towards his bus.
It was when he tried to swerve out of the path of the car that the collision occurred.
Hospital sources reported that Singh smelt of alcohol as his body was taken into the Accident and Emergency unit of the Georgetown Hospital.
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