An early morning accident along the East Coast of Demerara Public Road Tuesday left at least four persons injured and the northern side of the Republic Bank, Triumph, East Coast Demerara branch severely damaged.

Details surrounding the accident which occurred sometime around 1.30am are sketchy.However, Stabroek News understands that a truck with trailer was proceeding east along the East Coast Public road, allegedly at a fast rate when the driver lost control. As a result, the truck reportedly skidded off the median and crashed into the bank’s fence before coming to a halt. Reports are that the driver and three other persons were injured.They were taken to Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment.(Stabroeknews)…[+]

A 26-year-old woman has suffered serious injuries after a runaway truck landed on her car in the South African city of Port Elizabeth. The truck driver had parked the vehicle while he picked up his children from the Parsons Hill primary school, police said.

It rolled down the hill, smashing into the car from above. The woman’s Opel Adam was virtually flattened, leaving her trapped inside for nearly 40 minutes. Emergency services eventually pulled her out, reports said. The woman survived but was taken to hospital with multiple injuries, including fractures, paramedics said.

Paramedics from independent ambulance company Netcare 911 were among those to respond to the accident on Tuesday afternoon. “The truck was squashing both her and her car. Parts of it had to be cut off in order to free her,” Shawn Herbst, a spokesman for Netcare 911, told the BBC. The truck driver, who has not been named, is being investigated for reckless and negligent driving, police said.

“When he returned to his truck, he noticed it was no longer parked where he had left it,” police spokeswoman Sandra Janse van Rensburg told local newspaper HeraldLive. “He then noticed that the truck had rolled forward and collided with an Opel Adam.”(BBC)…[+]

Apple has complied with Russian demands to show Crimea as part of Russian territory on its apps. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, in a move that was condemned by most of the global community.

The region is now displayed as Russian territory on Apple Maps and Weather, when viewed from inside Russia. However, Apple Maps and Weather do not show Crimea as part of any country, when viewed outside Russia. The State Duma, the Russian parliament’s lower house, said in a statement: “Crimea and Sevastopol now appear on Apple devices as Russian territory.”

Russia treats the naval port city of Sevastopol as a separate region. Apple had been in talks with Russia for several months over what the State Duma described as “inaccuracy” in the way Crimea was labelled. The tech giant originally suggested it could show Crimea as undefined territory – part of neither Russia nor Ukraine.

But Vasily Piskaryov, chairman of the Duma security and anti-corruption committee, said Apple had complied with the Russian Constitution. He said Russia was open to “dialogue and constructive co-operation with foreign companies”. Apple has not yet commented on the decision.(BBC)…[+]