TRUCK driver Ricky Ranjee, 41, of Lot 120 Regent Road, Bourda, Georgetown, who prevented a major accident on Sunday, suffered severe injuries and is a patient in the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). He evaded a smash-up Sunday morning when a speeding motor car veered into his path and he managed to steer away into a concrete fence at Rahaman’s Park, Houston, Greater Georgetown.
Ranjee is nursing punctured intestines and multiple fractures to his hands and feet.
His sister, Nanda Ranjee told the Guyana Chronicle that, when she visited him at the institution, midday yesterday, he was responding to treatment but in a lot of pain.
She added that he was happy to be alive and she is praying that her sibling will get well eventually.
She also paid a visit to the porter, who gave his name as Devon. He was sitting beside her brother in the front of the truck and is a patient in the Male Surgical Ward, also suffering pain from fractured ribs and injuries to his feet and chest.
On Sunday 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.

BADLY DAMAGED
The front of the truck was badly damaged and the car and its driver were taken to Ruimveldt Police Station where the latter was in custody assisting with investigations while the vehicle was lodged.
Ranjee and others had returned from the interior and heading to the city when, eyewitnesses said, the speeding, out of control car overtook another vehicle and drove directly into the path of the truck.
They added that the driver took evasive action and avoided a major catastrophe by not hitting the car which was headed in the opposite direction and crashed into the fence.
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 one of them was treated and sent away but Ranjee and another occupant were trapped inside their vehicle before being pulled from the wreck after firefighters and others assisted in cutting a part of it to free them.