A police vehicle collided with a minibus at a junction on Vlissengen Road yesterday and within minutes both parties started throwing blame.
The police said they were travelling east along Sandy Babb Street with siren blaring and ended up crashing into the minibus at the junction on Vlissengen Road. The minibus driver refuted this saying that he heard no siren and “was almost over the road” when the collision occurred.
“These police ain’t had no siren on… ask anybody in this bus if they hear a siren,” the minibus driver said yesterday at the scene. The driver said he is from Mahaica and was travelling down to the city with a busload of passengers.
Stabroek News spoke with the passengers, some visibly upset, who said the police vehicle had no siren on. “These people ain’t being truthful,” a male passenger said while pointing to the officers who were involved in the crash.
The police officers maintained they had the siren blaring when the accident occurred. A female officer who turned up at the scene told the minibus driver that she was at the scene of an accident where the officers involved in the crash were and according to her, “they left with the sirens on.” She insisted that she was not “picking up for them.”
The minibus had minimal damage to the front passenger side while the police truck was badly smashed up in the front.
