HOURS after doctors informed relatives of 25-year-old, Elias Ross of Zeskendren Mahaicony that he had a fifty/fifty chance of survival the young man succumbed to his injuries sustained during the Friday morning truck and car smash up at Drill Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.On Friday morning the young man’s father told this publication that doctors while treating his son who was unconscious displayed some efforts that he was fighting to survive.
The man explained that several tubes were inserted into the young man to extract fluid caused by internal bleeding.
The other persons who were injured in the accident were Hollin Roberts 22-years-old of Farm Mahaicony and Calvin McLennon 21 –years- old also of Farm Mahaicony while the driver of the car 23- year- old Torick Mc Lennon died on the spot on Friday morning after he was pinned in the vehicle he was driving and which ended up into the path of the truck travelling in the opposite direction.
At about 05.30hrs on Friday Morning, motorcar PRR 8224 driven by Torick ended up in the path of a truck GGG 1155 which was loaded with lumber and heading west along the Drill Mahaicony Public Road while the car was heading east.
The first persons to respond to the accident reported to this publication that after hearing the impact they thought that the truck which was blowing its horn long before the impact had collided with an animal since the road is usually filled with animals each day.
Persons were of the view on Friday that the driver of the car might have fallen asleep and ended up in the path of the truck but the police stated in their press release in relation to the accident that the driver was speeding and lost control of the vehicle.
The accident occurred on a continuous turn at Drill Mahaicony and which stretches several metres. Speaking with the Guyana Chronicle on Friday at the scene one resident of Drill Mahaicony said that he was in his bed when he heard the continuous honking of the truck horn before hearing a loud impact.
He said that he looked through this window and saw the truck desperately trying to get onto the shoulder of the road even as the car kept coming into its path at a very fast rate with the windows up.
The man said that after witnessing the impact he rushed outside and saw the occupants of the car lying on the road while one was trembling, the other was asking to be taken to the hospital even as the other two persons including the driver remained trapped inside the vehicle with the driver already appeared dead and the passenger behind him gasping for breath.
(By Leroy Smith)