SHORTLY before midday yesterday, three workers of the Bosai Minerals Group (Guyana) Inc died under horrific circumstances, while another two — former junior national basketball player Marlon Pollydore, 21, and his colleague

Fabian Anthony, 22, were admitted at the Linden Hospital Complex in critical condition after the pickup in which they were travelling, PKK 79, was overrun by a huge white TR100 Terex truck.
The dead are: junior mechanic foreman in the Mines Division, 43-year-old Michael Williams, who was driving the pickup at the time of the accident; contracted employee and retired motor mechanic foreman, 61-year-old Trenton Gardner; and mechanic apprentice, 18-year-old Kesta Grant.
Pollydore and Anthony are also mechanic apprentices.
Management of the Linden bauxite operations were shocked to learn of the accident. They rushed to the Linden Hospital Complex before proceeding to the area where the fatal accident occurred, in the mines located south of Linden.
Reports suggest that Williams had just overtaken the truck while descending a slope, and he touched down in the gully area where a pool of water was. He soon after attempted to ascend towards the ‘Truck Shop’ when he lost control of the vehicle.
The driver, Gonsalves, of the left-hand drive truck that was heavily laden with bauxite ore apparently could not see the pickup, which had swerved uncontrollably in its path and was on his ‘blind side’ to the right, so the truck simply rolled over the pickup with its right side front and rear wheels, causing the tragic accident.
An eyewitness contended that the accident was inevitable because the truck driver could not know that the slushy mud had caused the pickup to wander into the path of the great mechanical behemoth. Moreover, a pool of water which the pick-up driver had probably tried to avoid as he was about to complete  overtaking the truck apparently compounded the situation.
The mangled bodies of the dead men were left strewn across the mines road as every attempt was made to attend to the seriously injured Anthony and Pollydore.
Grant was apparently seated in front with Williams, and Garner was seated somewhere at the back with Anthony and Pollydore. It remains a mystery how Anthony and Pollydore escaped death from this catastrophic accident.
By midday, the Linden Hospital Complex was swarming with curious onlookers, and the scene was sombre as the news spread across the mining town.
Company officials had, up to late yesterday afternoon, been contacting close relatives of the dead and injured in an attempt to console them.
Meanwhile, the father of one of the men killed in yesterday’s crash is  shocked at the horrific death of his son. The man said he had dispatched the open-back pickup just minutes before the accident occurred.
At the scene of the accident, the atmosphere was a very emotional one with co-workers of the dead and injured gazing at the sight of a once complete vehicle reduced to flattend pieces of metal.
Within one hour of the accident, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment mobilised a team that included personnel from the Labour Ministry and other key agencies who travelled to the accident site where they commenced an investigation into the matter. The police are also investigating the accident.