15 injured in crash at Happy Acres

At least 15 people yesterday escaped with only minor injuries after a late morning collision between a minibus and a car at Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara.

The accident occurred at about 11:30 and involved a Route 44 minibus that was carrying a full load, including two children, and the car.
The bus was heading to Georgetown when the car slammed into it, causing it to topple several times.

One accident victim, Vanessa Phillips, Headmistr-ess of Company Path Nursery in Buxton, recalled that the bus was travelling to the city when the car came out of a parking lot and turned on to the public road, heading in the opposite direction.

A relative of one of the injured passengers told this newspaper that when they arrived on the scene, the car appeared to be “neatly parked” in the trench with no driver in sight. “I don’t know if the man was allowed to run away or what,” the woman related.

The accident victims were all treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Among the injured were Sharon Rodney and her two children, three-year-old Naomi Watson and two-year-old Eldon Watson; Bridget King; Mark Wade; and Florence Butler, who is Phillips’ overseas-based aunt.