Two cars eerily dive into trench –at North Road corner

 

“COULD it be the hands of zombies at work?” is the question being asked by motorists, as cars continue to mysteriously plunge into the depths of a black water trench at the corner of North Road and Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Bourda. In a freak accident last Wednesday evening around 20:00 hrs, Gary Potter, was driving motorcar HC 1600 west along North Road, Bourda and had just crossed Shiv Chanderpaul Drive. He was just about three buildings away from his home, when it careened and ended up submerged for several hours.
Fortunately, he managed to exit the car which remained trapped at the bottom of the trench.
That was the most recent accident to have happened there, at the junction of North Road and Shiv Chanderpaul Drive.
Petrified and still in deep shock, when this newspaper arrived on the scene, Potter said the accident did not involve another motorist.
He recalled that he was driving west along North Road, heading home, when he suddenly experienced what he describes as someone suddenly gripping the steering wheel from him.
Stating that he really could not fathom what had happened, he insisted that he had not been drinking alcohol, nor was he speeding. “I was driving at a moderate speed, and was almost home when this thing happened,” the badly shaken driver related.

 Kevin London’s car PLL 8523 submerged in the North Road trench at the corner of New Garden Street
Kevin London’s car PLL 8523 submerged in the North Road trench at the corner of New Garden Street

In fact he seemed terribly frightened and for a long time stood gazing towards the car he was driving, which was only about four inches above water.
And just six days earlier, another accident happened at that exact spot, involving motorist Kevin London whose vehicle was lashed off the road by another, and into the same trench. Accidents, (many of them unexplained), regularly happen at that corner; forcing motorists to surmise that the corner is bewitched.
It was at that same corner that former Chief Librarian, Jillian Thompson was killed in an accident on Christmas Eve, just over a year ago.
Meanwhile, last Thursday, had it not been for the love of God, motorist Kevin London would have been dead within minutes after his motorcar was rammed off the road at the same corner by an errant motorist, and ended up submerged at the same spot in the seemingly bewitched trench.
Drenched from head to toe, and still marvelling at the spine thriller, London, the driver of PLL 8523, recalled he was driving west along North Road, en route to his air condition repair shop on Charlotte Street.
London said that as he was about to cross New Garden Street, he spotted another motorist proceeding south along that street. The motorist paid no attention to the fact that London had the ‘right-of-way’ and lashed the back of the car, sending it headlong into the trench.
The motorist accelerated and drove away, leaving London in the trench fighting for his life. Meanwhile, the errant driver, on hitting motor car PLL 8523, sped away without coming out of his car to offer any assistance to the man who was in the swollen trench, fighting for his life.
Instantly remembering that he’d always heard that wherever a motorcar is submerged in water, the rubber on the door holds fast, making it impossible for the door to open up, he said: “When I see meh car heading for the water, I hustle and fly open the door before it could end up in the trench.”
Once in the trench, he fought his way out to safety. But being a bit heavy set, it was with great effort that he accomplished that feat. He came out drenched and minus shoes.
London who is a member of Enmore Anglican Church, and who said he is prayerful and a firm believer in the Lord, is confident that it was the hands of the Almighty that delivered him from death in that hour.

 
By Shirley Thomas

 

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