TWO persons are now dead after a Route 43 minibus toppled several times before landing on its wheels in the bushes at the corner of the road in the vicinity of Long Creek on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway at around 18:15hrs.Dead are the minibus driver who has been identified as Roger Hudson of Linden but up to press time this publication did not have the name of the other person who died in the crash. Some 12 passengers are critical at the Mc Kenzie Hospital.
An eyewitness in a car told this publication that he was driving when he saw the minibus BSS 4774 speeding along the highway and trying to overtake another vehicle. The man said that after he saw the minibus fly pass him he slowed down.
“As I continue to drive my car I saw the bus topple like about four times before coming on its wheels at the corner of the road in the bushes,” the eyewitness said. More details will be published in a subsequent edition of the Guyana Chronicle as the details unfold.

(By Asif Hakim)