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Buck Hall accident…Three hospitalized in stable condition
A senior official attached to the Barama Group of Company on Thursday reportedly refused to assist several injured persons who were involved in an accident at 77km, Buck Hall, in getting medical assistance because he was too worried about the gasoline cost, a source stated. 
At around 02:00pm on Thursday, a Guycom Mining Company’s truck was heading to Barima Waini, Region One with 12 gold miners onboard when it toppled twice. Five of the twelve workers pitched a distance away from the scene and were rendered unconscious.
According to reports, a Barama truck, loaded with logs was heading in the opposite direction when the tragedy occurred. “When the truck loaded with logs passed a set of dust raise and the driver of the other truck swerve from the dust and it ended up toppling,” a source explained.
When the injured were taken to the Essequibo landing to be transported to a health institute, there was only one available boat. The boat transported one set of persons and while it was on its way back, someone suggested to a senior official at the Barama Group of Company to assist in taking out the patients to the Parika landing but the employee refused and questioned who will pay for the gasoline.
Of the five persons transported to the city, two were discharged while three, Tyrone Ramlochan, Trevor Smithet and Alfred Jacobs, remain hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
At the hospital yesterday, Smithet who is nursing injuries to his spine said that he and his colleagues, all gold miners, were heading down a hill, when the driver of their vehicle fail to slow down despite seeing the other truck proceeding with speed.
“The road is narrow and two trucks could not have passed there. The driver of one truck probably thought that he could have passed but instead the truck toppled and rolled over two times and everyone who were at the back fell off,” Smithet, a father of three recalled.
Ramlochan of the Soesdyke/Linden highway said he cannot recall what really transpired because he fainted. He sustained a fractured shoulder and four fractured rib.
At the time of the interview, Jacobs was asleep. He sustained a fractured neck along with other minor injuries.
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