Driver flees after minibus topples into trench

… two persons injured

Two persons have been admitted to the Suddie Public Hospital after the minibus they were in toppled into a trench along the Adventure Truck Line Dam, Essequibo Coast.

Hospitalized are occupants 17-year-old Akash Persaud of Adventure, Essequibo Coast and 30-year-old Michelle Gouveia of Adventure, Essequibo while the driver of the bus, 23-year-old labourer, Budraj Ramlall, fled the scene.

Inquiries disclosed that the said minibus was proceeding east on the said access road on Monday at around 17:35 hours when the driver lost control of the vehicle which turned turtle in a trench on the southern side of the said access road. The occupants were taken out of the minibus by public-spirited persons in a conscious state and taken to the Suddie Public Hospital.

They were seen and examined by a doctor on duty who admitted them as patients at the said institution. The driver of the said vehicle escaped from the scene and remains at large.