One dead, two injured in head-on collision

Jul 06, 2014 News

A head-on collision between a minibus and a car yesterday on the Cove and John, East Coast Demerara

Sebastian Frank and his wife in happier times.

Public Road, has left one person dead and two others nursing injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
The accident reportedly occurred just after 13:00hrs between a route 44 minibus bearing registration number BSS 3854 and motorcar PJJ 867.
Dead is 33-year-old Sebastian Frank, a father of four of Lot 108 Victoria Village, East Coast Demerara. Frank, the driver of the motorcar was pronounced dead on arrival at the GPHC.
His brother, Selwyn Carryl, 36, and the driver of the minibus, Leonard Lloyd, are nursing injuries at the GPHC.
According to reports, Frank, who was heading east along the public road collided head-on with the minibus after he tried to overtake a vehicle and ended up in the same lane with the bus which was heading in the opposite direction.
Luckily, all the passengers escaped with minor scratches and abrasions.
As the news of the tragedy spread through the village of Victoria yesterday, neighbours gathered at their home to comfort family members especially their mother, Debbie Wilson.
The mother explained that she was at home when she received the news. She had no idea that the accident was so serious. She only knew when she arrived at the hospital.
“When I was going to the hospital I hear Sebastian overtake and ended up in the same lane with the bus but I don’t know what happened really. At the hospital, the doctor told me that he couldn’t save Sebastian and he showed me Selwyn,” the mother said.
Fighting to hold back tears, a devastated Wilson said that Selwyn, a father of two, recently arrived in the

The car and the minibus which were involved in the accident.

country from the United States to spend a month with family members.
“He (Selwyn) and his brother went to look after a barrel that he posted before he left to come here. They left around 8 o’clock (yesterday) and they were coming home when the accident happened,” the mother lamented.
Neighbours and family members described Frank as a quiet person who spent most of his life in the small village after moving there as a child.
“I wouldn’t say he (Frank) was my best child but he was good to me. He was quiet and loving. Over 10 years now his father get a stroke. He use to live in Berbice and he (Sebastian) went and bring he father here so that he could look after him,” the mother said in tears.
She told persons who gathered in front her house, “(Friday night) I had a bad dream. In my dream I saw a lot of bodies lying and out of all the bodies there was one that smelled. I remembered walking towards it in my dream to see who it was but when I woke up I forgot who I saw, but it was my own son.”
Kaieteur News understands that Frank’s wife and children reside in the United States.
Frank leaves to mourn his parents, siblings, wife and children.