Several persons injured after three-vehicle collision on Rupert Craig Highway

Several persons were injured on Tuesday morning after three vehicles collided along the Rupert Craig Highway, in the vicinity of the UG Access Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

Police Headquarters said the accident involved hire car #HD 3223, owned and driven by Neil Lewis, a 63-year-old from Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice (with two male occupants in the vehicle); motor car #PAK 9877 owned and driven by Kamel Daniels; and motor car #PMM 3778 owned and driven by Narayan Sikandar.

Enquiries disclosed that Daniels was driving his car east along the northern drive lane of Rupert Craig Highway at a fast rate. Once in the vicinity of UG Access Road, the driver lost control of his vehicle, and the vehicle swerved south into and over the concrete median that separates the northern and southern carriageways.

Police said that the front of his car then collided with the right portion of the motor car driven by Sikandar, which was proceeding West along the Southern carriageway. That vehicle then collided with the right front portion of Lewis’s vehicle, which was also proceeding west along the southern carriageway of Rupert Craig Highway.

As a result of the three-vehicle collision, Police reported, the vehicles were damaged extensively, and the drivers of all three vehicles, along with the two occupants, received injuries on their bodies.

They were all picked up by public-spirited citizens and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit, where Sikandar was admitted suffering from a fractured right arm.

The other two drivers (and two occupants) were treated for pains in the chest, as well as lacerations about the face, respectively. Their conditions are regarded as stable.