A sign painter yesterday afternoon cheated death when he was miraculously pulled out alive, but with serious injuries, from under a truck which had crashed into the signboard he was designing at the National Cultural Centre.
Rodwell Bess is now a patient in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital. Bess, 30, of Middle Road, La Penitence has a sign painting business on Orange Walk Bourda.
According to Bess’ friend, who is employed at the National Cultural Centre and who requested anonymity, he witnessed the accident. The man said that Bess was painting a sign for an upcoming show at the Cultural Centre when the truck, GMM 2111, with a trailer of logs, lost control as it was speeding North on Mandela Avenue and slammed into Bess
