Edwin ‘Eddie’ Edwards, the driver of the ‘Number Four East End Bus’ is in critical condition after his bus collided with a tree in Breakers, right at the entrance to Caribbean Haven Treatment Centre. The accident took place at approximately 11.40 am on Friday 21st September.
According to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service, ‘it appears a trailer came unhinged from a car heading west and it traveled into the path of the bus which was heading east. The bus swerved to avoid the trailer and collided with the tree.’
Several other bus drivers and curious residents stopped at the wreck scene between Breakers and Frank Sound Road to examine the crashed bus. Photo: Tammie C. Chisholm |
Edwards was due to be airlifted off island for trauma treatment, although a decision whether to send him to Jackson Memorial Hospital or Jamaica’s University hospital had not yet been taken at 4.30 PM on Friday.
A spokesperson at the George Town Hospital confirmed ‘in addition to the driver, three passengers who were on the bus at the time of the collision have received medical treatment and one of those passengers is in serious condition with multiple leg fractures, he is currently in George Town Hospital’s Critical Care Unit.’ The other two, a male and a female were treated for broken ankles and have now been released from the hospital.
At the scene of the accident about half an hour after it took place, Pearlene Dixon, the owner of the ‘Number Four Bus’ was asking people on the scene to pray for her driver Eddie. She looked visibly shocked by what had happened and was collecting up ‘Eddy’s’ possessions, before heading down to the hospital to await the arrival of the air ambulance.
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