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Agricola smash-up…Dazzell father of three becomes first fatality
By Javone Vickerie
A Dazzell Housing Scheme father of three is the first fatality from Sunday night’s horrific vehicular smash-up on the Agricola Public Road, East Bank Demerara.
Pandemonium broke out at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday after relatives of 41-year-old Shawn Bourne learnt that he had succumbed to head and spinal injuries after clinging onto life in an unconscious state.
According to a relative, Bourne along with some of their family members were travelling back to Georgetown from a highway resort in a minibus driven by a man from Buxton, East Coast Demerara, when the accident occurred.
“I was at a wedding when I get a phone call from his sister telling me that Shawn and he family dem get in accident on Agricola Public Road”, the woman said.
The minibus PJJ 6588 which smashed into the mangled vehicle.
The relative said that she immediately travelled to the hospital and remained there until 7:00 am yesterday along with other relatives who hoped and prayed for the recovery of their loved ones.
The woman said that when she returned to the hospital, she received the tragic news.
“Well we went home and come back and when we ask the doctors what happen they tell us that he dead,” the woman recounted.
Bourne was said to be a passenger in the front seat of the minibus, BRR 1955, when the accident occurred.
Other persons who still remain in a critical state at the GPHC are; Shania Bourne, four, Kevin Granderson, Waylily Park, 30, Avis De Younge, 25, Howard De Santos, , Rocky Moore, 44, and Kenwin Isaacs, 18.
Bourne was among several other persons injured including children, after the driver of the drag-racing minibus crashed on the East Bank Public road near Agricola.
According to an eyewitness, who was driving behind the minibus, the driver of that vehicle was travelling at “rocket speed” as he was racing with a 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,” the man 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, I see people and set a li’l children pon the road… so me and some other men tek out the people and rush dem to the hospital,” the eyewitness said.
The man 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.
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