Latest update April 17th, 2025 9:50 AM
Two dead in highway crash
It was Pandemonium at the Linden Hospital Complex last night, as word spread of a fatal accident on the Soesdyke/ Linden Highway. The accident occurred in the vicinity of Loo Creek. Two persons died and at least 10 sustained injuries.
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Dead is driver of the bus, 29-year-old Roger Hudson, of Retrieve, and Cathy Marks 36, of Amelia’s Ward. The accident reportedly occurred shortly after 17:00 hours.
Those injured were Kerry Fraser, 35, of 331 Berbice Road; Quamie Robinson, 26, 48 Durban Street; Telisha Scott, of 786 One Mile; Shondell Chand, 45, of 527 East Ruimveldt; Marlon Washington aka Brando, of 183 Wisroc; Seon Anthony, of Wisroc; Marlyn Ally, of West Bank Demerara; Janelle Gordon, 29; Mark Nurse, the conductor, 25, of 92 Half Mile, Wismar; and Sean Lamazon, 29, of Section ‘C’ Christianburg.
People converged at the hospital where relatives wailed uncontrollably as the death of their loved ones were confirmed. Barbara Hudson, the mother of the dead driver, Roger Hudson, collapsed and had to be admitted to the Accident and Emergency Unit.
But Cathy Marks’s husband Javed Hutson, stood stoic, as he held his mother who cried over his loss.
“Why de had to kill me daughter in law? Why?” she wailed. Other family members were equally distraught. The members of both sexes were crying openly. It was one of the saddest scenes to behold.
Telisha Scott, 20, one of those injured is a nurse attached to St Joseph Mercy Hospital, was travelling to Linden as was Marlyn Ally, a pregnant woman who was going to Linden to visit, her fiancé, Marvin Lyckerish, 30, of Maria Elizabeth Mines, Upper Demerara River. He was hit by a fallen tree trunk on Wednesday at 28 Kilometre, Unamco.
According to Bernice Lykerish, her son was walking in the trail toward his tractor when the branch fell and hit him in his back.
He later told her that the boy with him shouted but before he could take evasive action he was too late.
The father of two is suffering severe back pains.
Lyckerish is the last son of Bernice Lyckerish, who lamented that her first son Michael Williams, was killed in an accident in the Mines on June 20, last year.
According to reports the ill-fated bus was travelling to Linden from Georgetown. Persons said that the driver was speeding when he suffered a blowout, in the vicinity of Kairuni. The bus reportedly skidded then toppled several times.
After the dead were taken to the hospital, several persons took the opportunity to view the bodies, which remained on the corridor for more than half an hour.
There was chaos as the injured were brought in and the curious scrambled frantically to get a glimpse of them. Hospital security had their work cut out for them as they fought to keep both relatives and others from storming the emergency unit.
A passenger who was passing in another bus said that he saw that the bus was on its side in the bushes.
“We would not even have seen that bus, if wasn’t for one of the other passengers, who said that she was admiring nature. The lady said, Look, look a bus in the bush”, and so the driver reversed. We see these people on the ground crawling around. It was really sad, because the driver was already gasping.” Several persons bemoaned the practice of speeding on the Linden speeding on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, which has in the past been responsible for many of the accidents.
One man declared, “That particular driver de like speed. Is like these guys does be determined to make so many trips per day- so passengers safety is secondary. And many passengers are afraid to speak out and tell them that they going too fast.
Other reports indicated that the wet condition of the road may have played another role in the accident. (by Enid Joaquin with additional reporting from Jacquey Bourne)
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