An afternoon accident left one person injured and other passengers traumatized after both cars made several flips while negotiating a turn yesterday on the Herstelling Public Road.
The driver of motor car PMM 2954, Vishnu Rampersaud, is relieved to be alive after his vehicle toppled three times, ending up in a concrete ditch on the Herstelling Public Road, East Bank Demerara. According to Rampersaud, he was heading south on the left lane when he looked into his rear-view mirror and noticed a car speeding behind him.
“After I saw him speeding I held my lane and the next thing I know I was hit from the back and I toppled three times ending up in there”, Rampersaud told Stabroek News as he pointed towards his silver grey Toyota 212 that was lying upside down in the ditch.
The visibly shaken driver explained that while he managed to get himself out of his car, he observed that persons from the other vehicle that hit him had started to emerge with assistance from bystanders. “That car had turned over too, it had like three women and a baby in the car, the driver got away”, Rampersaud said.
Meanwhile, one of the women who were in the second car, a Toyota Runx, told this newspaper that their driver did not flee the scene but was taken to the hospital by public-spirited persons.
The woman, who declined to give her name, said that while they were driving on the eastern carriageway, the driver had said to them that there was a tightness on the car’s left back wheel. She said that the driver was not speeding and it was when he negotiated the turn he experienced problems with the wheel.
“He tried to turn but it was the back wheel and like our car slide and hit the vehicle that was in front on the outer lane and then both vehicles flipped”, the woman said. The woman said that she does not know which hospital the driver was rushed to since she was taking care of the baby who was crying after the accident. The women and the children who were in the vehicle bore no visible injuries. The Toyota Runx was towed away by a truck minutes before this newspaper arrived.
