There was an accident this morning in Ladyville at the intersection of the Northern Highway and the Airport Road - which is a hotspot intersection. A crowded Bus from coming from Sarteneja Corozal ended up crashing into a smaller white bus which had just turned onto the highway. Fortunately the accident only resulted in only minor injuries.
The suggestion is that the driver of the bus was in the wrong for the speed it was traveling at while approaching an intersection, but also, there are passengers on the bus who say that the driver of the smaller white bus did not indicate while he was turning onto the high way.
Police will establish who is at fault, but today, one of the eyewitnesses spoke with us about what he saw:
Phillip Diaz, Eyewitness
"I was on the opposite side of the street and I was looking and I just notice that this blue bus, the speed that it was going - I want to know if the they don't have any common sense, because I am not saying that the white bus that came out of the airport road was in the right, but if they were using precaution and drive with care, this wouldn't not have happen at all, because he would have had time to stop. But he couldn't stop at that speed that he was going. This is a village. This is right at an intersection that is dangerous. There is a supermarket on the other side, people stop here to go to the airport, so I believe that we have to try do something about the speed limit through this area and the only way is to put speed bumps in place. I think they should have done that a long time ago."
Daniel Ortiz
"Talk to us about the way the impact took place. Can you describe that moment for us?"
Phillip Diaz, Eyewitness
"What really happen is that I don't know if the gentleman saw the bus was coming and the speed it was coming, he miscalculate and thought that he could have come on the highway, because he was already on the highway actually, when the incident happened because the bus swerve, but there an intersection in the middle of the road, that he couldn't come further out. When I conscious that they hit because I heard the noise."
When we left, police were doing their work to establish how the accident happened. The driver of the white bus received minor injuries because the green bus hit his side during the accident.
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