The driver of a bus that was involved in the fatal accident on the Lima Public Road, Essequibo Coast earlier this month that claimed two lives succumbed to his injuries on Sunday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
Dead is Vincent Persaud, 52, who was the driver of minibus BHH 6103, which collided with a motorcar, PPP733, on the public road at Lima on Sunday August 12.
Persaud was a patient of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the GPH at the time of his death.
He sustained a broken leg, hip and massive head injuries following the accident. He died around 2pm on Sunday.
Some of the occupants of the minibus were heading to the Anna Regina area at the time, while others were on their way to the Lake Mainstay where a regatta event was taking place that day.
On the day of the accident, 34-year-old Padmawattie ‘Rida’ Kumarie succumbed to injuries she sustained in the collision and several days later Deon ‘Junior’ Ramroop, the stepson of businessman Rupan ‘Fowl Cock’ Ramroop, died at the GPH due to injuries he sustained in the accident.
The collision occurred when Ramroop lost control of the car and collided with the minibus.
Alan Gildharie, 35, of Charity, Essequibo sustained injuries to both legs, while his wife, Claire Gildharie, 35, had her right leg broken in three places and her left leg broken in one place. She also lost her unborn baby as a result of the accident.
The couple’s two-year-old son, Alex Gildharie, who suffered abdominal injuries and three other children injured in the accident—seven-year-old Navindra ‘Amesh’ Persaud, six-year-old Geeta Persaud and her 10-year-old nephew, Satesh Rajkumar—remain patients of the Paediatric Ward of the GPH.
All of the injured persons, with the exception of Ramroop, were air-dashed to the GPH by a Guyana Defence Force helicopter and a private plane.
