Stabroek News spoke to Narissa McKenzie who stated that yesterday she; her mother, Oslyn Reynolds; her daughter, Makayla Sobers; her sister, Amarissa Mingle and the dead child’s mother, Noella Reynolds were travelling from Berbice to their Agricola home when there was another mishap.
She said that the bus in which they were travelling was on Middle Street and had the right of way to cross Camp Street when a car driven by a woman slammed into the side, sending the bus into the fence of the Christ Church Secondary School.
“The bus was dropping someone off … and we were between Church’s and Mario’s… the bus had the green light to go but this young lady came out of nowhere,” the woman stated.
She and her relatives, along with the other passengers, she said, escaped with only scratches and bruises. “The baby’s mother (Noella Reynolds) hit her foot but the doctor said it is not broken, only swollen and I punctured my lip, it has a hole. Everyone else is ok, just a few scratches,” she explained.
The previous night, the family suffered tragedy when 18-month-old Keira Hudson died after falling from the broken platform. Reynolds had just picked her up so that she could get a better view of the proceedings when disaster struck. Injured were her cousins Gift Leacock age 3; seven-month-old Anaika Bovell; Nicholas Peters, 7, of Mocha, East Bank Demerara and Nicholay Peters of Number 30 Village.
It was reported that the children along with relatives were at the time preparing to attend a wedding reception of a relative.
Rhonda Aulder, 31, at whose house the incident occurred, yesterday told Stabroek News that while Nicholas’ hand had to be put in a cast because it was fractured, the other children are fine.
McKenzie had noted that the family was making efforts to contact the Fort Wellington Police Station to enquire about the date of the post-mortem examination but calls, she said, went unanswered.
