A man died last evening after a speeding bus collided with him in the city.
According to eyewitnesses, Wilbert Anthony, 52, of Lot 27 South Haslington, East Coast Demerara was crossing Camp and New Market streets when a Route 44 bus came speeding down Camp Street and collided with him.
“It just happened out of nowhere, out of nowhere the bus came racing across the road and knock he hard, hard,” a pump attendant at the Shell Gas station told Stabroek News yesterday, explaining that around 6:30PM Anthony was trying to cross Camp Street when the bus collided with him, sending his body some 15 feet across the road.
“He was fast, fast, at least 120kmph, when he hit the guy and he pitch far away, all his boots and jewellery fly off and all over,” he further said. He added that after the bus which was filled with passengers hit Anthony, the driver lost control and sped off the road, destroying three concrete bollards and finally flipping over. The man said that after the passengers had exited from the overturned bus they started to argue with the bus driver as they said they had warned him that he was going too fast. Anthony was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Anthony’s distraught relatives couldn’t hold back their tears at the Georgetown Public Hospital. They explained that they received a call from an unknown person saying that Anthony had been in an accident and was taken to the GPHC. Upon their arrival at the hospital, they discovered that Anthony had died. They said that the man would usually visit a close friend at the Medical Arts Hospital every afternoon and then walk down to Camp Street where he would catch a bus and return home.
The passengers inside the bus were not injured. The driver was taken to the police station for questioning.
