POLICE are currently investigating the accident at Soesdyke Public Road, East Bank Demerara, which claimed the life of a 25-year-old minibus conductor and left four others injured, in the wee hours of Monday, August 10, 2020.

Dead is Quamie Dalton, of Block ‘C’ Ice House Road, Timehri, while four other passengers of the motor car he was travelling in are currently hospitalised.

Those injured are hire-car driver Shaquille Henry, 25, of Mora Street, Linden; Shania Budburgh, 18, of Amelia’s Ward, Linden; Melissa Lewis, 20, of Providence; and Rosanna Bobsemple, 27, of Kara Kara, Linden.

The Guyana Chronicle was made to understand that Henry was the driver of motor car #HD 1029 and, around 02:00 hours, on Monday, he was speeding along the eastern side of Soesdyke Public Road with his four friends inside and was looking for a place to ‘hang out.’

It is alleged that Henry, while in the vicinity of the Soesdyke junction, hit a median, which is situated in the centre of the road and lost control of his vehicle.

As a result, the vehicle ‘skidded’ off the road, collided with a lamp post and ‘turned turtle’ before coming to a halt.

The vehicle received extensive damages and the passengers were all taken out of the vehicle by the police and public-spirited citizens and placed into another car and rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre.
They were all seen and examined by a doctor on duty. Dalton later died while receiving treatment.

Henry, Budburgh, and Bobsemple were later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where they were treated for various injuries such as fractured legs and laceration to the head and about the body.
The motor car driver was subjected to a breathalyser and it showed that he was under the prescribed limit.

The police investigation is still ongoing.