‘Baby Dinol was going down, I pulled him up fast’ – says Moruca River crash survivor

Baby Dinol and Shelly Allen

Flashbacks of the horrific collision keep coming to 28-year-old Shelly Allen which makes her terrified, but when she thinks of how she managed to save the life of three-month-old Dinol, she becomes happy.

Allen and baby Dinol are two of the survivors in the recent collision between a Coast Guard vessel and a civilian boat in the Moruca River, Region One (Barima-Waini).  The three occupants of the Coast Guard Radar Craft RC 17 also survived the crash, which occurred around 06:45 hrs on Friday.