– schoolchildren escape unhurt at La Parfaite Harmonie

A 45-year-old Yaracabra man was killed in a vehicular accident at Pearl, on the East Bank of Demerara Monday afternoon.

Dead is Ameer Hussein, of Yaracabra, on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. According to the police, the accident occurred at around 15:10h.
“Initial investigations revealed that the minibus, registration number BNN 9334, was proceeding south along Pearl Public Road, and while negotiating a turn, collided with Hussein, who allegedly ran from the eastern side of the road,” the Police said in a statement.
Hussein was reportedly rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, but was pronounced dead on arrival. The driver of the minibus, a 33-year-old Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara man, is in custody assisting the police with this investigation.

SCHOOLCHILDREN HURT
Meanwhile, on the West Bank of Demerara at La Parfaite Harmonie, in the vicinity of Westminster, five primary school children and a female driver escaped unhurt after the car they were in was hit by another vehicle on Monday.
The children were taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where they were examined for any injuries. When the Guyana Chronicle arrived on the scene, at the “Four-Corner Junction” in the vicinity of the “White Shop” in La Parfaite Harmonie, traffic ranks were conducting their investigations.
The vehicle, which was transporting the schoolchildren, was off the road and inches away from being submerged in a nearby trench.
From all indications, after being hit, it ran into a roadside stall before running off the road. The other vehicle was parked a short distance away.
At the hospital, Shamisa Narine told this newspaper that she was transporting five children, ages four to eight, from school in her car, PTT 4944, when the accident occurred at around 13:00h.

According to Narine, she had almost cleared the intersection while proceeding west onto Westminster’s second bridge when her car was hit at the rear.
The 42-year-old woman, who has been driving for a number of years, said she was not at fault. “I was already in the middle of the road when he jammed my back,” she said, adding:

“He believed that he could have passed without hitting me, but he couldn’t. He hit me, and all I could have done was swerve.”
Narine’s car veered off the road into a street-side stall before coming to a halt in a clump of grass inches away from a nearby drain.
The woman said the other driver was speeding. “If he slow down, how I end up there? You pick sense out of nonsense!”
The other driver, Richard Kingston of Bagotville, who was driving HB7730 at the time of the accident, alleged that Narine never stopped at the intersection.
“I coming on the Westminster Main Road and she come straight across without stopping or anything; straight into my car,” Kingston said.
“The woman didn’t stop; she drive straight over. There is a stop sign; she never stopped. And she came straight over in my path.”
However, he admitted that his car rear-ended Narine’s. The 47-year-old said he has been driving for approximately 20 years, and maintains that he was not speeding.
“If she had stopped where the stop sign is, the accident would not have happened. And I wasn’t going fast,” Kingston maintained. Investigation into the accident by Traffic Ranks is presently ongoing.

The Soesdyke-Linden Highway in the vicinity of Moblissa was the scene of another accident. A logging truck, which was laden with logs, turned turtle while proceeding to Georgetown from Linden.
The accident occurred shortly after 07:00h, at which time it was raining heavily on the highway. The driver and other occupants of the truck were not hurt. They declined to speak to this newspaper.