Reports are that the vehicle hit a parked “Extreme” minibus BLL 6964, slammed into two fences, crashed into a storeroom of Daniel Bourne’s house and ended up lifting his back stairs before coming to a halt.
Eyewitnesses told this newspaper that the driver, of Bush Lot, West Berbice had also passed one of the bikers who he almost ran into and was trying to pass the others when he lost control.
At that stage the vehicle hit the bus then slammed into the fence of Jillian Porter and crossed the fence separating her yard from Bourne’s then crashed into the storeroom, breaking it into pieces, and then hit the stairs.
Bourne told this newspaper that he had just gotten out of the shower and was standing close to the pantry located at the back of the house when he heard a loud impact.
“From the impact, I said this thing coming right here and I stood one place; I didn’t move. All I hear was a loud commotion under my building and my whole house lift up and swing in three different directions,” he told this newspaper.
He said he heard residents shouting and “when I look down from upstairs I saw a …person trying to come out of the vehicle. By the time I come down the person was gone.” Reports are that the driver also had a female companion in the vehicle.
According to Bourne, a rice and cash crop farmer, the storeroom was completely broken down and damage was also done to two bicycles, four bags of seed-paddy, insecticides, a quantity of tomatoes and other articles.
He also said that residents assisted him to “strap” the house to prevent it from crashing down but he was still afraid to sleep in it.
Porter, who screamed so much after hearing the impact that she almost lost her voice, said she thought her daughter who was coming down the stairs at the time was struck. When she looked out the vehicle was already under Bourne’s house. (Shabna Ullah)
