Shontel Haynes is a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital
after the car in which she was travelling crashed into the Eversham Bridge, a
stone’s throw away from her home on Thursday morning.

The woman, who lives two houses after the bridge, was returning home from
Georgetown when the driver, her husband, allegedly swerved from a
pothole on the bridge and crashed into the metal rails. Haynes was pinned
for over an hour before she was removed from their Toyota Fielder
Wagon.

According to boat owner Balta Jaundoo, he was supervising some work on his boat when he saw the car heading in his direction.

“It was raining when the car coming through swerved from the pot
hole at the entrance of the bridge and slammed into the rail on the
left hand side, a metal from the rail pass through the car and run
through the lady leg,” he related.

Another eyewitness Derwin Grant, 21, who lives a close distance and is
also a relative of Haynes, said after he went to the scene, he noticed
his cousin was stuck with the pipe through her foot.
Many watched helplessly as he quickly went into action and got a hacksaw and began cutting the metal pipe, with assistance from a fisherman.

Following the successfully removal of the metal, the woman was rushed to the
New Amsterdam Hospital where she remains a patient.

Meanwhile, residents in the area are calling on the Ministry of Public
Infrastructure and the Regional Administration to fix the deplorable
state of the road at the earliest. They are contending that for the past
weeks, the pothole has led to several fender-benders and if not fixed there may be more serious accidents.