Fancy Loaf vehicle overturns by Airport…
Female co-worker injured!
By Stanford Conway
Editor-in-Chief-SKNVibes.com
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – A traffic accident on the stretch of road from Basseterre leading to New Road has left a woman seeking medical attention and the driver of the vehicle counting his ‘lucky stars’ and cannot stop praising God.
At about 6 p.m. last evening [Wednesday], a bus, P7024, owned by Fancy Loaf and driven by Earl Somersall of Lime Kiln, ran off the road leading to New Road and came to a halt after turning turtle and ending up in a ditch because of a damaged Control Arm in the steering system.
According to Somersall, he was returning to Basseterre after delivering bread in the St. Peters area when the steering wheel failed to positively respond while negotiating a bend in the vicinity of the gate to the Control Tower of the Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw International Airport.
“I was returning to Basseterre after delivering bread in Upper Monkey Hill. As a bus passed me when I approaching the gap by the Control Tower I found the steering wheel was ringing through my hands freely. The bus was travelling towards the wall fence and I then applied my hand brake to avoid hitting the concrete fence. It ran off the road, spin on the grass and pitched on the opposite of the road and turned over in the drain,” Somersall said.
Somersall said he was not driving at a fast rate and that was the reason why the vehicle slowly ran off the road into the drain after applying the hand brake.
“If I were driving fast I would not have been able to explain what happened! I was conscious of everything that went on,” he added.
Somersall, throughout his ordeal, exited the vehicle unscathed, but explained that his co-worker, Florence Francis, suffered injuries and was taken to the JNF General Hospital. SKNVibes later learned that Francis was admitted to the medical institution, and up to press time she was reportedly in stable condition.
Viewing the right-hand drive vehicle from the front, one would believe it to be a motorcar by the manner in which it fitted into the ditch with the top severely bent. ~~Adz:Right~~
Many onlookers were amazed and expressed disbelief at the sight of Somersall walking without any sign of injury and eloquently explaining to the police and media representatives what took place in the near fatal accident.
Speaking with SKNVibes, Somersal thanked God for delivering him safely from the wrecked vehicle and showed reporters the broken part of the Control Arm attached to the right wheel that caused the steering to malfunction.
