A truck driver prevented a major smash-up at Rahaman’s Turn, Houston, after a speeding motor car, PLL 128 veered into its path yesterday morning.The truck driver, Ricky Ranjee, 41, of Lot 120 Regent Road, Bourda, Georgetown is a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), after he managed to avoid hitting the car and ended up in the concrete fence shortly after 08:00 hours. He received severe internal injuries and was complaining of major pains to the chest yesterday after he was conveyed to the GPHC by passersby following the accident.
At the scene yesterday morning, the heavy duty truck had crashed into the fence of a house that is situated at Rahaman’s Turn just opposite Tent City after taking down the billboards, as well as, the Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras that were mounted on poles there.
The front of the truck was badly damaged and the car and its driver were taken to the Ruimveldt Police Station where, the man was in custody assisting with investigations and the vehicle was lodged.
Eyewitnesses told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday that Ricky Ranjee and others had returned from the interior and was heading to the city when the speeding, out of control car overtake another vehicle and came directly into the path of the truck.
They added that the driver took evasive action and prevented a major accident by avoiding the car which was headed in the opposite direction and crashed into the fence.
Also at the scene, was the owner of the truck, who could not give details stating that he had just arrived on the scene.
The truck GPP 2824 is attached to Zaman Trucking Service and Auto Mechanic and Spare Parts.
Reports said that the two other occupants managed to escape with minor injuries and were treated and sent away while Ranjee is said to be in a serious condition, up to press time.
Also at the scene, the mother of one of the men injured in the accident, who was an occupant in the truck collapsed after she reached the scene and had not seen her child yet, who was sitting at the side of the road after he was pulled from the mangled truck by fire fighters and others, who took sometime cutting the truck to get out the trapped men.
Firefighters showed up at the scene and after a while, managed to free the trapped men from the truck and they were taken to the GPHC for medical attention.

Meanwhile, at the GPHC Ricky Ranjee was listed as critical with stomach, neck, tummy and foot injuries. Yesterday morning the injured man told his family members that he felt as if the inside of his belly was burst up. He also complained for severe chest pains.
As word of the accident spread his relatives began to pour into the GPHC compound. Speaking with the Chronicle yesterday morning, one of the man’s brothers who give his name as Vishal, he said that he received a call saying that his brother was involved in an accident and that he needed to visit the hospital.
He said that when he showed up at the facility and was informed that the truck that his brother was driving and which had two other occupants veered off the road and ended up into a fence. He said that his brother was returning with an empty truck from Region Eight.
Vishal said that he was also told that it was while in the vicinity of Rahaman Park that a car that had just over take another vehicle swerved into the path of the truck and during efforts to prevent the truck from running over the car or ramming into it, the truck ended running off the road.
Ricky Ranjee is a father of four and has been driving trucks in the interior location for almost 15 years another brother, Rohan told this publication. Yesterday Rohan said that his brother have  been working with his present employee for some time now but does driving jobs for several other persons in the interior locations. (Additional reporting by Leroy Smith).