Prime Minister Samuel Hinds yesterday urged motorists using hinterland roads to always exercise caution and not be fooled by the low traffic situation.
Hinds made these comments while expressing sympathy to the bereaved as well as the injured in Tuesday’s horrific accident on a mine road in Kwakwani. Two men – Remington Wade and Terrence Budburg – were killed while fourteen persons sustained injuries, after a pickup and a mini-bus collided head on.
Hinds, in a statement, said that as a minister involved in the development and maintenance of hinterland roads and one who travels often along many, “I recognise that with the very low frequency of encountering other vehicles, people may be easily seduced into believing and acting as if there was no other vehicle to be encountered on the road”.
He recalled a horrific accident about ten years ago on the Mabura Road. “I call on everyone who drives along hinterland roads not to be seduced by the low traffic on those roads but to be constantly aware that there is a chance though small of some other vehicle coming around a corner or over a hump,” he said.
The minister said that he shares the pain, grief and sorrow of the families, relatives and friends of the deceased and injured of the Kwakwani, Hururu and Aroiama communities and “hope that we, all Guyanese will be moved to be more careful in our use of our roads.”
