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Five injured in Homestretch Avenue accident
Five persons were injured in yet another accident on Homestretch Avenue yesterday morning.
Injured are Odell Williams 19, of 21 Alamanda Avenue Bel Air Park and his brother Daniel Williams, who were treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and sent away; Daniel La Rose, 14, of Duncan Street; Yohla Lewis and Shaquille Punche, 16, of lot 50 Hadfield Street.
They were all occupants of a motorcar, PNN 3674.
The mangled vehicle
This newspaper was told that the accident happened sometime around 10:00hrs.
According to the eyewitnesses, the vehicle, which was reportedly speeding, slammed into a lantern post before coming to a halt in some nearby bushes. Members of the Police Traffic Department along with rescue workers quickly arrived at the scene.
This newspaper was told that two of the occupants were briefly pinned in the vehicle. They were eventually rushed to the Georgetown Hospital.
Three of the victims appeared to have suffered broken limbs and multiple abrasions about their bodies.
At the hospital yesterday relatives of the injured young men refused to divulge much information to the press.
One woman, who identified herself as the mother of one of the boys, told Kaieteur News that she received a telephone call informing her that her son was in an accident.
The woman said she immediately rushed to the hospital. Relatives were also reluctant to say which one of the boys was driving the vehicle at the time of the incident.
This newspaper was told that one of the boys’ mother is the owner the car and had asked her son to take it to the carwash.
After the car was cleaned, the teen picked up his friends, unknown to his parents and went for a ‘spin’.
Investigations into the accident are continuing.
One of the injured teens being rushed to the hospital
Two months ago five persons from Sophia lost their lives after a minibus crash.
The driver of the minibus has since been charged with five counts of causing death by dangerous driving. The matter is still ongoing in the courts.
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Typical teen-age behavour….I was the first who offered to wash my father’s toyota mark 2. just to thief dat “lil-drive” or wait for the opportunity when the driver of the “öld-time Morris” said that he had to buy cigarette……I would spring behind the wheel and leave the man to walk up the street…..My father had never permitted any of his children to drive his cars. The young man who took the car to the wash;does he have a driver’s liscen?
I think the teens need to have control of themselves they are creating havoc in the place.
hard ears boy
Joy riding. WOW is that an ambulance, I’ll say no more.