…mother says doctors did everything possible
SIXTEEN-year-old Elbert Thorne died while receiving medical attention at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Saturday evening.
The taxi they were travelling in on Saturday evening turned turtle and ended up in the Sussex Street canal along Cemetery Road in Georgetown. Speaking with  Alma Thorne yesterday afternoon, the dead boy’s mother said she and her son joined a taxi from Kingstown, Georgetown, and  were scheduled to be dropped off in Grove on the East Bank of Demerera. However, the woman said that by the time she knew it the driver was in the vicinity of the Ocean View Hotel, heading for Golden Grove on the East coast of Demerara.
She told the driver of the mix-up and he turned the car around at the University of Guyana road and headed back for the city. She said that she then realised that the man was heading through  Cemetery Road and she informed him that he was using the wrong route; but he assured her that he was going to get her to Grove.
According to Ms. Thorne, it was  when they were approaching the Sussex Street bridge that she heard a pop, and then the car was upside down in the trench. She managed to climb through the back window of the vehicle and she saw people coming to her assistance.
They plunged into the canal and pulled out her son and the driver and they were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The bridge that has no rails was the scene of yet another accident last week after a car ended up in the same position. Luckily the driver escaped unhurt. A few years ago a motorcyclist died at the other end of the bridge.
The bridge has been without a rail for the past three years, and is full of pot holes.
Following the accident on Saturday night, angry residents of North East La Penitence, Albouystown, and surrounding communities set tyres and other materials on fire at the bridge in protest at the authorities not fixing the bridge after so many  accidents have occurred there.