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Oct 30, 2010 News
While Friday’s fatal crash at Number 19 Village, Corentyne appears to be the worst in recent memory, there have also been other accidents within the past three years that have resulted in multiple fatalities.
And in all of them, speeding appeared to be the major factor. On October 10, 2007, a minibus transporting passengers through Amelia’s Ward, Linden, at night slammed into the back of a parked timber truck.
Ten passengers were killed. Also in October 2007, six persons, among them two children and a pregnant woman, died after a car suffered a blow-out and slammed into a concrete fence and a guard hut at Bel Air, East Coast Demerara.
Five of the victims were occupants of the car, while the sixth was a security guard who was in the hut when the crash occurred.
In July 2008, five persons, including two brothers, all from Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, died after the car in which they were travelling collided with a Sports Utility Vehicle near Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara. In May 2009, four people, including a traffic policeman, perished when their car slammed into a parked truck near Camp Seweyo on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
In November 2009, a minibus travelling to Berbice smashed into the rear of a sand truck at Mahaica. The minibus driver and four passengers were killed. In August, 2009, three young men died after their car crashed into a lamp-post near Providence, East Bank Demerara.
They were in a car that one of them had taken without permission while his father slept.
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