A THREE-year-old girl is now warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) with injuries to the head and eyes after a motorcar in which she was travelling on Sunday morning on the Haslington Public Road was rammed off the road by a Route 44 (Mahaica) mini-bus.The child, Angel Baynes of 64 ‘B’ North Haslington, East Coast Demerara, prior to the accident, was attending Mount Oliveth Wesleyan Church, pastored by her grandfather Rev. Franklyn Baynes when around noon, she began vomiting and developed a high temperature.
The family became concerned and her father Mark Baynes decided to take her to the Nabaclis Health Centre to be treated. Baynes said that while he was driving his Toyota BB at a moderate speed to the health centre, a speeding Mahaica mini-bus suddenly slammed into it on the driver’s side.
The impact propelled the car into a parked Toyota Raum and came to an abrupt stop. The child who was in the rear seat of the family car was pitched headlong into the front windscreen and suffered a deep puncture to the head. In the process, fragments from the windscreen got into her eyes and she also suffered injuries to her neck and arms.
Instead of going to the Nabaclis Health Centre, she had to be rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where she was admitted to theatre for surgery. Surgery was done to her head and flints were extracted from her eyes. She is due to return to the theatre today.
The injured child, a pupil of the Cherished Lambs Nursery School on Brickdam, is the first of three children for her parents Felicia and Mark Baynes.
Meanwhile, the driver of the mini-bus, a pandit who said that he was on his way to a “religious work” was taken into custody and is assisting the police with the investigation.

By Shirley Thomas