A tragic road accident on New Year’s Eve this morning at around 7:00am in the city of Port Moresby saw people injured and one person dead after he was thrown out of the Public Motor Vehicle (PMV) bus he was traveling in.
Eyewitnesses at the scene and some passengers of the Number 7 bus that was involved in the accident, claimed that the taxi that hit the bus was on high speed and did not slow down at the traffic lights section and crashed into the PMV along the Independence Boulevard at Waigani, right in front of the National Parliament House.
A couple of people were also injured in the accident with some of them having to make their own way to the hospital because the ambulance did not arrive yet minutes after the accident.
A passenger who was also on board the bus said he was lucky to get out without a scratch after the bus tilted over on to its right side from the impact of the crash. He said he was sitting at the back sit of the bus, but by some miracle he wasn’t injured when the bus tilted over.
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses and passengers on board that PMV bus, also claimed that the taxi driver and passengers on board were drinking and driving along the boulevard.
Bystanders and the other people that arrived at the scene of the accident, also found an empty carton of beer inside the taxi. Eyewitnesses said the occupants of the taxi fled the scene of the accident. St John Ambulance officers later arrived at the scene and attended to the body and some of the injured people that were still there.