A truck transporting 21 drums of fuel turned turtle after a collision in Bartica, shortly after midday yesterday.
The accident occurred around 12:45pm, at the junction of Sixth Avenue and Third Street, Bartica.
A Bedford-type truck GLL9300, owned by Krishnadat Persaud, of Lot 39 Sixth Avenue, Bartica, collided with the fuel truck, GLL 6058, a similar make vehicle owned by Ganga Persaud, of Lot 160 Mongrippa Hill, Bartica.
Ameallo Boodne, 19, who was behind the wheel of GLL 9300, was travelling south along Sixth Avenue, approaching the Third Street junction when he hit the fuel truck, which was travelling west along Third Street, approaching the Sixth Avenue junction.
On impact, the fuel truck turned turtle and spilled its cargo onto the streets. One could smell the fumes from the spilt fuel on approaching the area of the collision.
Although the cabin of the fuel truck was smashed-in, the driver, identified only as “Romel,” was not injured. Boodne also escaped unhurt.
The collision is the second major road accident to occur in Bartica for 2011.
On New Year’s Day, a car toppled over after slamming into a wooden bridge on Sixth Street, between First Avenue and Second Avenue.
Meanwhile, police were yesterday investigating the circumstances surrounding an altercation between two female teenage students that resulted in one of them being stabbed by a male bystander.
The incident occurred yesterday afternoon at the junction of Fifth Street and Fourth Avenue, Bartica.
