-man admitted to hospital

One man was admitted a patient at the Fort Wellington Hospital and three others were treated and sent away when a car slammed into a minibus around 9:15 am yesterday at Number 28 Village, West Berbice.

The wrecked car

Driver of the Toyota Camry motorcar, PGG 950, Leon `Natty’ Nathanial, 41 of Shieldstown suffered injuries to his head, hands and stomach and relatives were making arrangements to have him transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Those treated and sent away for minor injuries were Kishore Deokie, Jiashree Sukhra and Surujpaul Sukhra.

Driver of the minibus, Premdat Sukhra, 43, a pandit told Stabroek News that he and his family were travelling to Mahaicony for a religious function when he saw the swaying car approaching in the opposite direction.

Pandit Premdat Sukhra standing next to his damaged bus

Just then a relative, Lalta Deokie, a Justice of the Peace, who was sitting in the front seat next to him shouted, “Look wah going on there!”

Deokie said after he saw the car “started to jerk up” he told Sukhra to pull into the corner and then there was a loud impact. He also said he saw the driver trying desperately to control the car after that.

A resident told this newspaper he heard the loud noise and looked up and saw “the car on one side and the bus on the other side” of the road. He also noticed the car rolling onto the parapet.

He said he hurried to the scene and saw part of the driver’s body hanging out of the car on the passenger’s side window and he assisted in pulling him out and rushed him to the hospital.

Owner of the car, Dwayne Morgan, 33 of Plantain Walk, West Bank Berbice told SN that he sent the driver out to “do some business” and he later received a call that the car had crashed. He learnt that the car had a “speed wobble.”

Morgan said the driver went out with the car at around 7 am and was returning when the accident occurred.