Rawle Bacchus, one of the drivers who was injured in the multi-car crash at Foulis, West Coast Berbice last week, remains hospitalised.
The man’s nephew, Aaron Wilson, yesterday told Stabroek News that his uncle had to undergo surgery to mend broken bones. While he remains in the Georgetown Public Hospital, his condition is listed as stable and his nephew informed that he is recuperating without any complications.
Dense smoke from a rice field fire was said to have obscured visibility and was blamed by drivers for the collision, which occurred on Thursday last just around 11am.
The accident involved motorcar, PYY 7837, driven by Akeem Daniels, 23, of Number 28 Village, West Coast Berbice; motor car, PWW 5627, driven by Jaichand Jaikaran, 41, of Fifth Street Success, East Coast Demerara; motor car PAB 1558, driven by Abocy Lynch, 36, of Bel Air, West Coast Berbice; and motor car PPP 4151, driven by Rawle Bacchus, 43, of Catherine, East Coast Demerara.
According to the Guyana Police Force, Jaikaran was proceeding east on the public road, while Bacchus and Daniels were proceeding in the same direction behind each other.
Daniels told police that he observed smoke along the roadway which blurred his vision, causing him to lose control of his vehicle, which collided with the right side of motorcar PPP 4151 driven by Bacchus. Bacchus’ vehicle was then propelled into Lynch’s before coming to a stop in a nearby trench.
Bacchus was rushed to the Mahaicony Public Hospital, where he was treated and transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
