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Jan 27, 2015 News
A pregnant woman reportedly suffered a miscarriage when the minibus she was travelling in, collided head-on with a truck on the Friendship, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road around 10:30 hrs yesterday.
The minibus was almost knocked into the Demerara River. It was the mangroves which are planted along the riverbank that saved the vehicle and its passengers from ending up into the murky water.
Kaieteur News was told that the minibus, bearing registration number BPP 6035, was carrying 18 passengers. It was heading to Georgetown from Kuru Kuru on the Linden/ Soesdyke Highway.
The passengers were all injured. They were immediately rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre before being transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for further medical attention.
Some of the injured persons have been identified as Elvina Raphael, 31; her sisters, Debbie, 33; and Rachael, 38; 15-year-old Ramona Raphael (Rachael’s sister); Padmini Balgobin; Odetta Nelson, 36, and Richlin Ralph.
According to information reaching this newspaper, the driver of the truck, bearing registration number GLL 8377, was proceeding south along the EBD Public Road when a car allegedly came out of a side street into its path.
The truck driver, who is in police custody, informed relatives of the injured persons that he mashed brakes after he saw the car but his vehicle failed to come to an abrupt stop.
To avoid a collision, the truck driver claimed that he had no other choice but to severe from the car. He entered the other lane eventually colliding head-on with the minibus which was loaded with passengers.
At the Diamond Diagnostic Centre yesterday, one woman said that she was waiting in front the health institution when she saw a minibus drive into the compound at full speed.
“The bus just drive in and when the driver come out, people had to come and assist in lifting out the passengers. One woman, her face dig up; she was bleeding all over. One man, like his hip dislocated. His body shaped like an “S”… he was curve up. About eight persons were in that bus,” the woman said.
She added that before the first bus could have completely off-loaded the injured persons, another bus drove into the compound with some nine persons.
“The accident was really bad. People break their foot, hand. Some people had big, big holes in their foot and some of them head bust-up,” the woman said.
She further added that when the pregnant woman was taken into the hospital, she was heard crying and saying, “I feel my baby coming down…It coming, it coming.”
Relatives of the injured persons got into a verbal battle with a security guard at the health facility who tried to prevent them from entering the compound.
“This woman behaving like she owns this hospital; she just chasing people out. Imagine, we heard that our sister in the accident… we come here to make sure she is ok, and this woman chasing us.”
Up to press time, the injured persons were being treated.
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