THE two persons who died as a result of a horrific minibus and a motor car smash up on the Lima Public Road, Essequibo Coast two Sundays ago, have both been buried, while the driver of the minibus, Vincent Persaud, of Charity remains in a serious condition in the High Dependency Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Of the seven persons air dashed to the GPHC following the accident, a couple injured in the minibus, have since been discharged, while four children remain warded at the institution.
Thirty-three year- old Padmawattie Rajkumar, of Somerset, Essequibo Coast was buried at New Road, also on the Essequibo Coast, on Saturday, while  22-year-old Ramesh Ramroop (also called Junior), of Charity, was buried at Kabakaburi Mission in the Pomeroon on Sunday. Rajkumar who was pinned under the bus in which, her husband and two children were also travelling, died on the spot.
Junior Ramroop, driver of the motor car which crashed into the bus, carrying about 14 persons, succumbed at the Suddie Hospital two days later. Ramroop was rushed to the Suddie Hospital in a serious condition, suffering life-threatening injuries to his head. Because of the severity of his injuries suffered, he was placed on life machines and could not be air-dashed to the city with the others.
Of the seven persons transferred to the GPHC, two adults – Allan Gildery 35, and his wife Clair Daniels, 33, have since been discharged. The other four children remaining in hospital are: the late Padmawattie Rajkumar’s two children: Amesh Perwsaud, seven, and Geeta Persaud, six, who both suffered broken limbs among other injuries. The Gildery’s two-year-old son, Alex, who broke both legs; and nine-year-old Satesh Rajkumar (Padmawattie’s nephew). Satesh, a Fifth Grade pupil of Suddie Primary School, lives at Johanna Cecilia, but was spending the August holidays with his aunt, Bhagmattie at Somerset when tragedy struck.
The accident happened just after midday, as the bus in which family members were travelling, was heading towards Anna Regina.
Meanwhile, Padmawattie’s sorrowful widower, Krishna Persaud who, from the time his children were admitted to hospital have been performing the dual role of mother and father to them, flew out of Essequibo to the city on Monday and has since been doing everything in his power to nurture and keep them comforted.
On Friday he returned home for his wife’s funeral and soon after returned to the city to be with their two children. Krishna said that even though the family, all would have liked the children to attend their mother’s funeral, doctors advised against it, noting that their injuries were too severe and they had not yet passed the worst.