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A female security guard was killed on the spot at around 17.00 hrs yesterday after a speeding bus she was travelling in crashed into a utility pole at Little Diamond,Wholesale China Jerseys, East Bank Demerara.Lynette Joseph, of Coverden, East Bank Demerara,China Jerseys Wholesale, was reportedly sitting next to the conductor and was pinned for several minutes in the vehicle. The National Hardware Limited employee succumbed just as rescuers were taking her to the East Bank Demerara Regional Hospital.The mangled front of the minibusThe driver, identified as Travis Davis, reportedly suffered minor injuries, and Kaieteur News understands that he had repeatedly ignored pleas by some passengers to slow down.At least three other passengers were injured. Among them were Vanessa Tappin and her husband, Oswin Tappin, reportedly of Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara; and Joylene Barker,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, 50, of Second Street Grove, East Bank Demerara. They were also treated at the East Bank Demerara Regional Hospital.According to reports, the minibus, BSS 9471, which was heading towards Georgetown, was passing another vehicle when the driver lost control and slammed into a metal utility pole.“This driver does speed nuff…he young and he wild. He overtake a vehicle and like he lost control of the vehicle and slammed into the pole. The bus almost turned turtle. People had to pull out dem passengers one by one,NFL Jerseys From China,” a male eyewitness said.Another man, who said he was one of the first persons on the scene, told Kaieteur News that Lynette Joseph and a male passenger, who was sitting next to her were pinned in the vehicle. He said that residents eventually managed to haul Joseph and the other passenger out of the vehicle.He said that a traffic policeman flagged down a truck driver and pleaded with him to take the injured passengers to the nearby medical facility,Cheap Jerseys From China, but the driver ignored him. Eventually a pickup stopped and some of the injured were taken to the East Bank Demerara Regional Hospital.According to the eyewitness, Joseph was still alive when she was taken from the minibus,Cheap Jerseys NFL, but died on her way to the hospital. He said that at the scene, a female passenger who sustained injuries said that passengers had complained about the speed at which Davis was driving, but that he ignored then.The woman’s husband, relatives and several colleagues turned up at the hospital after receiving news of the tragedy. Joseph’s distraught spouse, who was reportedly in poor health, had to be treated at the facility.The husband of injured passenger Joylene Barker said that he learnt of the accident when he called the family’s Grove, East Bank Demerara home to enquire whether his wife had arrived. It was shortly after that that his daughter called and told him that his wife had been injured in an accident.There were an alarming number of road deaths last year, reportedly exceeding fatalities in the previous six years. |
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