Infant dies in highway accident

Dec 18, 2013 News

– Several persons injured

An accident on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway, at around 10:30 yesterday morning in the vicinity of Adventure, has left a two-month-old boy dead, and several others including the child’s mother seriously injured.
The baby, Ryan Anthony Fresco of Mahdia, was the only child for his mother, 22-year-old Yhonessa Munroe and was reportedly travelling with her when the bus had a blow out and subsequently ran into the nearby bushes. Munroe and several other passengers were rushed to the Linden Hospital Complex. She was understandably

Driver of the bus, Oliver Collins, being taken into the Linden Hospital

too distraught to speak to the media.
Another child, three-year-old Jermaine Jones of 528 Kiskadee Drive, South Ruimveldt, escaped unscathed. He was reportedly traveling with his parents Jermaine George and Faye Jones, of the same address, who were both injured.
The other persons in the accident were the driver of the minibus BRR 5728, 58-year-old, Oliver Collins of Friendship, East Bank Demerara, who suffered multiple injuries, Roger Smith, 46; seventeen-year-old Shonney James who sustained two broken arms; Delon Jones, 19, of 85 Nismes, West Bank Demerara and Jonathan David of Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara.
According to David, the driver of the bus tried valiantly to avert disaster after the blowout, but unfortunately ran into the bushes.
“I don’t know what happened, I was sleeping,” Shonney James reported. James said he was on his way to take up employment in the interior. A few other persons said they were returning to work.
According to Yonette Jones, the mother of Delon Jones, her son was on his way to Madhia to take foodstuff for his father, when he met with the accident.
(Enid Joaquin)