16-year-old dies as minibus topples on Corentyne Road

…teacher among others critically injured

A 16-year-old student of Bush Lot Secondary, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), is now dead following an incident involving a minibus carrying students home on Friday afternoon.
Dead is Jodea Seline.
Police confirmed that the student of Limlair Village passed away at the Number 75 Hospital while receiving medical attention. Up to press time, the police had only reported that the bus in which the students crashed, resulting in several students being rushed to the said medical facility. Regional Police Commander Assistant Commissioner Shivpersaud Bacchus said the crash occurred at Number 63 Village, and the driver was in a serious condition.
This publication was also told that a teacher is also in a serious condition.

Reports are that the children were returning from school athletics sports at Corriverton. Villagers said the bus driver tried to swerve from a horse on the road, resulting the bus toppling and injuring several of its occupants.
Meanwhile, Education Minister Sonia Parag, on Friday evening said “it is with a heavy heart that we mourn the tragic passing this evening of young Jodea Seline, who attended Central Corentyne Secondary School. We extend our deepest condolences to her family and relatives and pray that you find strength at this very sad time.” She said that the Education Ministry and the entire Government continue to engage the doctors and staff of the No. 75 Hospital as they care for and monitor the other students and teachers involved in the accident. In August, a nine-year-old boy, Sahil Naipaul, a student of Crabwood Creek Primary School, was killed in a hit-and-run accident while on his way home from a shop.
In April, a truck driver lost control and crashed into a Guyana Power & Light (GPL) utility pole, a shop, and the fence of a nursery school on the Manchester public road. There were no injuries to anyone at the school, but the driver was arrested, and in March, a nine-month-old baby girl died in a hit-and-run accident on the Line Path Public Road. Her teenage mother also died and her father was critically injured.