Children among several injured as drag-racing bus crashes

Aug 19, 2013 News

Fifteen passengers, including two children, were injured at around 19:30 hrs yesterday after the driver of a drag-racing minibus crashed on the East Bank Public road near Agricola.

Rescuers around the mangled bus.

Among the injured are Sharline Bourne, four, Cynelle Moore, 10, Kevin, Althea Bourne, 31, Kadeen Bourne, 3, Lily Park, 30, Asif Juman, 21, Shawn Bourne, 31, Lorson De Younge, 25, De Santos, Trinell De Younge, 24, Rocky Moore, 44, Mikisha Moore, 1, Kenwin Isaacs, 18, Dania Abrams, 15, Zahid Ali, 25, and Montel Lavencia, 18.
The accident occurred in the vicinity of the Alpha Hotel at Agricola Public Road.
According to James Valenzuela, who was driving behind minibus BRR 1955, the driver of that vehicle was travelling at “rocket speed” as he was racing with another car, which he overtook on the Providence Public Road.
“I notice he since at Providence just speeding coming down, and then suddenly a white 212 speed past he and like it provoke he so he went after the car”, Valenzuela said.
The man added that the two vehicles were racing “neck and neck” on the road when the car struck the bus resulting in the bus toppling several times.
“When I drive up and I see people and set a lil children pon the road… so me and some other men tek out the people and rush dem to the hospital”, the eyewitness said.
Valenzuela added that after the crash, another minibus, PJJ 6588, which was also traveling at a tremendous speed, slammed into the back of the bus; sending it into a nearby wall with persons still trapped inside.
“This bus done bruk up and all of a sudden a next one wuh couldn’t control he speed come and smash heself into it and yuh done know what happen with them people in deh”, the man said.
Another eyewitness who resides just a few houses away from the crash site recalled hearing the sound of “things breaking” before she heard the screams of the injured.
“When I look through the window the first thing that caught me eye was a small baby in the gutter so I shout to some a dem boy and tell them look the child and when they pull him out he been cover in blood all he head like he get hit”, the woman said.
She said that a woman who appeared to be the mother of the child was also lying on the ground in an unconscious state.
She added that it took the effort of over a dozen men to take out the persons from the mangled minibus.
Meanwhile, at Airy Hall Mahaicony, five people were injured when two cars crashed while negotiating a turn.
Among the injured are Sanjay Backreedy, 13, Royston Silos, 34, and Bibi Seegobin, 55.

7 thoughts on “Children among several injured as drag-racing bus crashes”

Linden Sinclair August 19, 2013 at 6:24 am

SAD! Guyanese GONE ASTRAY, NO LOVE IN THEIR HEART TODAY
QAM_FREQ August 19, 2013 at 8:34 am

Madness indeed!
vatvic August 19, 2013 at 12:31 pm

These drivers are Too young to be responsible for the lives of so many… consider restricting the experience of hire drivers to those who held 10-15 years of error free private drivers license. We have to start at some point to curb the madness
1. raja25 September 5, 2013 at 9:01 pm
  
  wonder what percentage came by their licences the “right way” ,
Action August 19, 2013 at 6:18 pm

These deadly problems are just as important that politicians should’ve made an effort to solve a long time ago, instead of bickering about the Amaila Falls project. Why not fix the easy problems first? It is obvious the head of the traffic department is not supported with his ideas or maybe just doesn’t come with proactive ideas to solve this problem of speeding.
kes August 20, 2013 at 1:26 am

All public transportation should be equipped with a governor to restrict the speed. All vehicle in the U.S have it that’s why most of them have top speed of 120 to 140 Mph. Buses and taxi should be restricted to 65 mph.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_(device)
besmart September 7, 2013 at 11:59 am

Guyana has become the land of lawlessness and corruption.