Three of the eight people injured in Sunday’s accident at Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara (ECD) are recovering in the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Leslie Anthony Simon, 47, the driver of one of the two vehicles involved in the accident, sustained broken legs and is now a patient of the High Dependency Unit. Simon said yesterday that he was feeling a little better. He also sustained a wound to his lower abdomen.
Simon said that while his legs were broken he was not going to lose either of them. On Sunday, Simon’s wife had shared with this newspaper that she feared that her husband’s leg would have to be amputated.
Meanwhile, Nathan Stoute, 12, and Avinash Ramnauth, 13, a neighbour, are patients of the Male Surgical Ward. Stoute who is Simon’s son did not sustain a broken leg his family clarified. He however has a gash which started from his forehead and crept over to just under his eyes.
Stout’s relatives said he is awaiting an x-ray to determine if his nose is broken. His face remains swollen.
And Ramnauth’s father shared that his son is scheduled to undergo surgery on Thursday to have steel inserted into his thigh. He sustained a broken left leg.
Early Sunday morning Simon and seven other persons were their way to the Plaisance Market when the accident occurred.
According to Anita Mangal, 37, Simon’s wife, they were “attempting to catch de market”. She sustained a fractured left leg and cuts to the face.
As the Canter they were travelling in was about to cross a bridge at Bee Hive she observed a truck “tryin fuh overtake a car” which were both travelling in the opposite direction. She said that there was nothing her husband could have done, as the truck which she noted was speeding, crashed head-on into their vehicle, on the right hand side of the roadway just as the Canter crossed the bridge.
The occupants of another vehicle, a family which also vends at the Plaisance Market, said they were following Mangal and her family and observed when the truck swerved into to the path of the Canter, and the two vehicles collided head on. Other eyewitnesses to the accident also substantiated this.
Other persons injured in the collision were Nicola Stoute, 18, Nikkita Stoute, 15 and Stephen Walcott, 14. Nicola sustained a large cut to the forehead and cuts and bruises about the body while Nikkita sustained cuts and bruises about the body. Walcott sustained a fractured leg.
According to Mangal, she and one of her daughters were seated at the front of the family’s Canter while the others were travelling in the vehicle’s tray.
The driver of the truck has since been taken into police custody.
