Vendor jumps onto car to avoid being hit
Several persons were injured when a minibus and a motor car collided at the corner of Camp and Norton streets shortly after 8 last night.
According to an eyewitness Route 47 minibus BKK 1065 was heading south on Camp Street while motor car PKK 6409 was travelling west along Norton Street. The woman said that the car did not stop as it was supposed to but turned into Camp Street and slammed into the minibus.
The bus was knocked onto its side while the car ran into the front of a pharmacy at the south western side of the junction causing a nut vendor to jump onto its bonnet seconds before he would have been hit.
Keith Johnson told Stabroek News that he was sitting at his nut table when he heard a woman scream “look wha happening there.” “By the time I could react the car done deh pon me already,” the visibly shaken man recounted. He said that he heard the loud impact upon collision, “but by the time I raise meh head all I coulda do was jump on the car bonnet to save me self.”
Meanwhile several persons including two children were taken to the hospital for treatment.
Alana Melvin was sitting in the conductor’s seat of the bus, carrying her two small children with her. She said that she did not see exactly what happened but held on to the children who luckily escaped without injury. “One just bump she head, and the other one bump her knee,” Melvin related to Stabroek News at the hospital. The driver of the minibus Huburn Saul called Johnny and several other passengers were taken for treatment. Janice Datson of 287, East Ruimveldt suffered cuts to her head and face. She was sitting in the front seat of the bus.
She told Stabroek News that the bus was driving along when the car suddenly came out of nowhere. The woman lost her purse and her shoes in the chaos that ensued after the accident.