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Jul 08, 2014 News
Selwyn Carryl, one of the two survivors from last Saturday’s head-on collision at Cove and John, East Coast Demerara, said that he was sleeping when his brother crashed into the minibus around 13:00 hrs.
The 36-year-old father of two, who recently arrived in Guyana to spend a month with family members, is hospitalized in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
According to Carryl, on that fateful day, he was heading home with his now dead brother, Sebastian Frank, who was driving motorcar PJJ 867. The father of two could not say how exactly his brother ended up in the path of the minibus BSS 3854.
“I don’t know what happened. I really can’t say. I was sleeping when I hear the collision and then I fainted,” Carryl said, adding that the only pain he is experiencing is minor chest pain.
The accident has resulted in the death of 33-year-old Sebastian Frank, a father of four of Lot 108 Victoria Village, East Coast Demerara (ECD). The driver of the minibus, Leonard Lloyd, sustained minor injuries.
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 bus passengers escaped with only minor abrasions.
The brothers’ mother, Debbie Wilson, had explained that she was at home when she received the news.
She added that 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.
“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 (Saturday) 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.
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