A DRIVER narrowly escaped death Saturday when the car he was driving, licence plate PMM 4831, turned turtle in the vicinity of the Houston bypass.

Eyewitnesses told the Guyana Chronicle that the man was overtaking another vehicle heading in the same direction as he, when he suddenly decided to divert onto the Houston bypass.

In so doing, he clipped the front of the other vehicle, which caused his to topple before coming to a halt on the eastern parapet of the Houston bypass, on the lower East Bank.
The errant driver, who was the only occupant of his vehicle, had visible lacerations to the head, and appeared quite bloodied. However, his immediate attention was to secure the items in his vehicle rather that rushing off to seek medical attention.
A traffic policewoman at the scene took both drivers into custody to assist with the investigations. When this newspaper arrived on the scene, there were lengthy skid marks across the roadway going towards the median.
The traffic on both sides of the roadway was backed up for several yards as persons slowed and stopped to get a glimpse of the wreckage.

(Asif Hakim)