BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-TWO persons were rushed to the J.N. France hospital yesterday afternoon (Feb. 2) after the vehicle they were travelling in slammed into a stone wall near Brimstone Hill Fortress, Sandy Point.
Sometime around 3:30 pm yesterday a delivery bus belonging to the Buckley’s Estate-based Food Centre was travelling westbound through Sandy Point on the Island Main Road when it swerved left, broke through a stone wall and crashed into a tree.
The vehicle, P 2383, was occupied at the time by two employees of the Food Centre. Reports by persons at the scene of the accident indicated that both men were pinned in the vehicle upon collision and had to be removed from the vehicle by emergency medical personnel and helpful Sandy Pointers. No indication of what caused the bus to run off the road was expressed at the time of the accident.
The names and the extent of the men’s injuries were not immediately made available, however it is believed that the passenger in the vehicle suffered some injury to his legs.
Two ambulances from Basseterre, one from Sandy Point and a fire truck rushed to the scene and helped remove the injured parties from the vehicle, after which they were both whisked to the Hospital.
Goods and supplies that the Food Centre bus was carrying for delivery were scattered along the roadside, and after the men were safely carried away several other employees arrived on the scene to salvage what they could of the potato chips, laundry detergent, toilet paper and other goods that lay half-destroyed.
The accident marks the third occasion in as many days that has sent two injured persons to the hospital, with the other two occurring Saturday (Jan. 31) in Basseterre and Cayon.
When contacted by SKNVibes, officials at the Traffic Department said that they continue to investigate the latest incident and would urge people to exercise more caution while driving.
