(Kaieteur News) – One person is dead and several others are receiving medical treatment following a three-vehicle collision on the Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD) public road Saturday afternoon — an accident that surveillance footage suggests was set in motion by a dangerous lane change and compounded by excessive speed.

The crash involved a canter, a Route 42 minibus, and a car near the Guyana National Stadium, bringing chaos to one of the East Bank’s busiest corridors in the middle of the afternoon.

Surveillance footage reviewed by this newspaper tells a grim story. The canter is seen crossing from the outer lane on the western side of the road into the inner lane — directly into the path of the oncoming minibus, which was travelling at considerable speed along that same lane.