WCB driver, pedestrian killed after speeding car crashes into stall, bus shed, utility pole
Two persons are now dead after a speeding car crashed into a bus shed, after hitting a vegetable stall, then splintering a utility pole on Sunday morning at Belle Vue, West Coast Berbice (WCB), Region Five.
Those dead are the driver, Davin Daniels, 29, a carpenter/mason of Onderneeming, WCB and pedestrian Mark George, a 49-year-old labourer of Belle Vue.
What’s left of the bus shed where George was waiting
George was sitting in the bus shed waiting to be picked up to go to work.
One eye witness told this publication that George and a work colleague were at the bus shed but the colleague left to do something at his home which was a minute away.
According to the police, Daniels was driving PAD 9544 which first hit a vegetable stall then crashed into the bus shed. The accident occurred at about 5:40h on Sunday.
Aerial view of the site of the tragedy
“The car was proceeding east along the northern side of Belle Vue Public Road at a fast rate when the driver lost control of the vehicle, swerved to the southern side of the road, and collided with a vegetable stand. The car continued further east and collided with a bus shed where the pedestrian was sitting on a wooden seat. The car continued further east and collided with a utility pole on the southern side of the road, where the vehicle came to a halt. As a result of the collision, the light pole broke and fell, in the process crushing a wash bay shed”, the police release stated.
It noted that the George was pinned under the bus shed while Daniels was pinned in his vehicle. They both received injuries to their heads and bodies and were picked up by public-spirited citizens and taken to Fort Wellington Public Hospital, where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
The splintered utility pole after the collision
George’s wife, Nelta George told this publication that at about 5:45h she received a telephone call that her husband was killed by a car at the bus shed.
“I put on my clothes and go out… he was lying there in the bus shed. I couldn’t look.”
The woman said the driver was also pinned in the car, which was in a canal.
Meanwhile, Daniels’ 74-year-old father said his son might have been on his way home after visiting his sister. According to Mekrey Stanford Daniels, he was only informed that his son crashed while returning home and died.
“My wife told me that when she went she met him he was lying dead,” he said.
Daniels was a father of two.
Both bodies are at Bailey’s Funeral Home, awaiting post-mortem examinations.
