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Six injured as bus turns turtle on East Demerara highway
A minibus conductor is clinging to life following a horrific accident between the vehicle he was working on and a car. It happened on the main East Coast highway in the vicinity of Ogle last night.
The mangled route 44 mini bus.
Rodwin Todd, 25, is now a patient at the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, suffering from massive head injuries as a result of being pinned by the bus BKK 1776. The bus had turned turtle several times after clipping a Toyota Corolla NZE car.
Five other persons, including two pregnant women, who were all passengers in the route 44 minibus sustained injuries and were rushed to the same hospital.
The injured are Natasha Chance, 34, of Ogle; 59-year old Genevieve Carberry, of Beterverwagting; Prudence Thornhill, 19, of Vryheid’s Lust; Woshana Charles, 34, and her daughter, two-year-old Adeyeini Corbin of Triumph.
Carberry, who is the mother of the bus driver Michael Bacchus, lost her left eye, while the other injured persons are said to be stable.
Eyewitnesses recalled seeing rescuers hauling injured people from the bus after it had rolled over several times along the median that divides the four lane thoroughfare.
They recalled seeing the bus weaving in and out of the traffic while heading up the East Coast Demerara Highway.
Azad Alli, a visitor from Canada who was in the car that was involved in the accident, recalled that he was sitting in the front passenger seat as they were heading up the Coast.
He said that the car was proceeding east slowly on the southern lane of the southern carriageway, when he observed a minibus suddenly appear from the back and tried to squeeze past the car.
“We weren’t driving fast because there were kids in the vehicle…so while we coming, the next thing you know I saw a bus in front of me. The bus just came out from behind us into the left lane and just cut back…he undertook us and probably he didn’t clear our car when he tried to change back in the lane,” Alli explained.
The car he was in was clipped at the front left side, causing it to spin several times, while the driver of the bus lost control and ended up on the median and toppled several times.
“He hooked the front of the car and next thing we were in a roller coaster. The bus flip over and all I saw were bodies lying around…half out of the bus, it was terrible,” Alli said, adding that the bus was “jam packed, overfull.”
The visitor said that he had heard about the way Guyanese bus drivers use the roads and last night he had a firsthand experience.
“I was in it and that is why I said it was like a roller coaster,” Alli stated.
As news of the crash spread, scores of people converged at the hospital to ascertain if their relatives were among the injured.
Relatives of the badly injured conductor were hoping and praying that he would somehow overcome the injuries he received. They have placed their faith in God and the medical staff at the hospital.
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