Girl, 12, injured in Mon Repos accident

Aug 19, 2015 News

– car slams bus, knocks over roadside stands

Reckless use of the roads continues to be a bugbear for the Police traffic department.
Yesterday a driver swerving to avoid catastrophe, injured a 12-year-old girl and disrupted the livelihoods of some roadside vendors at Mon Repos.
Just after 14:00hrs, Naomi Sookram of 491 Good Hope East Coast Demerara was rushed to hospital with leg and other injuries which she sustained from a domino effect accident, reportedly caused by a speeding car.
Minutes earlier she was reportedly sitting next to her family’s roadside egg-ball stand when she was hit by the back of her grandfather’s minibus, which had been struck by the car. Luckily the minibus was stationary or it could have been worse. The door of the bus was dislodged.

The car which slammed into the bus

“If the bus nah been deh is everybody woulda been dead,” Sookdeo’s grandmother told this publication as she reflected on the near-miss.
The minibus BDD 2366 was metres away from the food stands when it was slammed into by a black Toyota Sprinter PFF 624. Eyewitnesses said the car was heading east on the main road when two other vehicles heading west drove close to it and one attempted to overtake.
“The black car like he swerve to avoid hitting the two cars, but ended up slamming into the bus and the domino effect happened after the stalls were hit.”
While the 12-year-old was the only one rushed to the hospital, two other persons barely escaped injury by dashing to safety as the egg-ball stand and an adjoining cane juice stand were destroyed. Owner of one of the cane juice stands, Baldeo, of North East Mon Repos Squatting Area, said that his cane juice mill/grinder that was badly damaged is valued in excess of $450,000.