Up to eight persons were yesterday rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital after a pick-up truck ran into a minibus along the Crane Public Road, West Coast Demerara.
Some of the injured have been identified as bus driver Shawn Praimdatnarine 44; bus conductor Nazim Khan, 24; Naazalita Punawattie, 25; Kelly Jordan, 15; and Lynden Garnett, 38.
The accident occurred around 6pm, according to eyewitness Sunita Jagdeo, who said that was the time the operators of minibus BRR 1664 stopped at a bus stop on the Crane Public road to pick up a passenger. The bus driver was about to return to his lane when the driver of a Toyota Tundra, with licence plate GPP 7985,
