Phagwah Day accidents leave one dead, several injured

Mar 18, 2014 News

Amidst the colourful Phagwah celebrations, a fatal vehicular accident threw several families into grief as a pick up truck on the East Bank Demerara Public Road toppled yesterday afternoon leaving one reveler dead and several persons nursing wounds at various city health institutions.
Of the mishaps which occurred yesterday, the accident at McDoom/ Houston on the East Bank Demerara, was the only one that caused a fatality and increased the number of vehicular accidents for this year.

Paul Subryan

Sharay Busby

Dead is Wazir Mohamed Hussein, 21, of Lot 216 Diamond Scheme, East Bank Demerara.
Kaietuer News understands that around 15:45 hours yesterday, about 11 Phagwah revelers were in a red Ford 150 pick-up (GRR4883) heading to the National Stadium, Providence when the driver lost control of the vehicle, causing it to flip several times.
Reports are that the vehicle was at that time carrying three occupants in the cab while the other eight occupied the tray. The deceased (Hussein) was reportedly the front seat passenger of the vehicle.
Eyewitnesses related that the vehicle was speeding along the McDoom/Houston Public road when the driver ‘lost control’ and the pick-up began to sway wildly along the road.
They recounted that the vehicle wheel then blew out and it flipped over several times before crashing on its side in the middle of the public road.
“Then all we see is people just start pitching out the vehicle,” one eye witness recalled.

Gabriel Hussein

At the scene of that accident, the vehicle was in the middle of the road, near the access road to Gafoors.
The only person who remained at the scene was the driver, Brandon Rahaman, of Robb Street, Georgetown.
According to Rahaman, they were all ‘hanging out’ at Station Street, Kitty when they decided to join in the festivities at the National Stadium.
He claimed that as they were driving along the Public Road, those in the tray of the vehicle “threw powder and it got into his eye.”
He stated that at that time, Hussein who was sitting in the passenger side attempted to wind up the window but by that time the powder had already obstructed his vision and in an attempt to halt the vehicle he “mashed brakes.”
One of the wheels blew out and the vehicle toppled three times.
As a result of that accident Sharay Busby, 16; Fairy Ramdat, 19; Renatta Raghubir, 19; Tamika Bowen; Jugraj Singh, 21; Anthony Singh, 21; Gabriel Hussein, 17; Avinash Lazarus, 15; and Imran Khan, 21, were taken to different city hospitals to nurse the injuries they sustained from the accident. Busby is a student of the Brickdam Secondary School.

Driver being taken to the hospital

, Brandon Hussein sitting next to the smashed vehicle

Hussein was taken to the Balwant Singh Hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.
Meanwhile, motorcyclist Paul Subryan is also nursing wounds in hospital after his bike flipped over at the South Dakota Circuit yesterday.
The 55-year-old who was at that time practising for “races” next week was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) by colleagues after he sustained injuries to his head.
Also, around 18:10 hours yesterday, a middle aged Berbician man was rushed to GPHC after he was hit by a Hummer. Reports of that accident are sketchy but the man was admitted in a critical condition.
Around 20:30 hours a family of six was taken to the Woodlands Hospital after a drunken driver smashed into their vehicle on the East Bank Public Road, in the vicinity of Banks DIH.
There were also minor accidents at Industry, East Coast Demerara, Lamaha and Vlissingen Roads, Georgetown; Station Street, Kitty and Meten-meer-Zorg.

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