An elderly woman and her 14-year-old disabled granddaughter escaped serious injury yesterday afternoon when an out-of-control minibus crashed into their Lot 19 West Front Road Squatting area home.
A shaken Bebe Salima Kharoun, 58, said she was asleep in a bedroom at the front of the house, right where the bus hit it, when she heard “bam!” and was thrown from her bed.
Kharoun, who has been living at that spot since 1987, said when she went to investigate she saw the bus which had crashed through the fence “kissing” her house. She said almost everything in her house was damaged. She was still to ascertain if her refrigerator which she had stocked up with meat and other items, hours before, was still working.
Lavern D’Aguiar, a passenger in the minibus, told Stabroek News that the driver swerved to avoid hitting a dog, hit a huge stone in front of someone else’s house and lost control of the vehicle.
Kharoun and D’Aguiar, who was crying out for pain in the neck, were later taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital for medical attention. Eyewitnesses told Stabroek News that the bus was speeding down the road prior to the accident.
The driver declined to speak when approached by this newspaper. Police were on the scene conducting investigations.
