One of the survivors of last Saturday’s accident at Bottom Arawak, Arima, said that the truck driver was speeding before the vehicle overturned and claimed the lives of three passengers.
Olinda George, 41, from her hospital bed in the High Dependency Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital, explained that she, along with several others, were in the tray of the vehicle travelling to a mining camp at Quartz Stone. The accident, she said, occurred while they were travelling down a hill.
George, who resides at Mile and a Half, Potaro Road, Bartica, indicated that she was unable to recall anything as she was unconscious during