A Police officer has been critically injured after the car he was driving slammed into a bridge rail on the Corentyne Highway.
This is the second time in five days that a Police officer has run a vehicle into projected bridge rails along the Corentyne Highway, Region Six (East Berbice/Corentyne).
Police officer Dellon Harvey trapped in his car after he slammed into a projected bridge rail on the Corentyne Highway
Injured is Constable Dellon Harvey. Reports are that the accident occurred at about 21:30h on Tuesday at Number 60 Village, Corentyne.
According to the Police, the motorcar was proceeding north at a fast rate of speed when, it has been alleged by the occupant who was seated at the left front seat, the driver swerved west from cows which were on the roadway and ended up colliding with a concrete culvert before running into a gate on the western side of the road.
Members of the Guyana Fire Service along with a doctor and nurses of the Skeldon Hospital assisted in taking Harvey out of the vehicle and to the Skeldon Hospital. However, as a result of the extent of his injuries he was transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital for further treatment. The lone passenger who was with the cop at the time of the accident was assisted by public-spirited citizens out of the vehicle and taken to the Skeldon Public Hospital, where he too was treated.
Eyewitnesses say it took several hours to get the injured officer out of the wrecked vehicle.
“When we hear the thing we run out…then they take a while and them carry over a cutter to cut the car. It take about…hours and they can’t get him out. Then they call the Fire Station and the Fire Station come and they can’t take him out. They call the ambulance and they come, and about one hour after, they get to take him out,” one resident recalled.
Eyewitnesses said Harvey was conscious, and told them that his feet were in pain and appeared to have been broken.
It was only last Thursday at Number 59 Village that Constable Dellon Fields who is stationed at Whim Police Station also slammed into a projected bridge rail.
In a release, the Police said the driver had swerved from cows which was on the roadway and ended up colliding with a concrete culvert. In that accident, two Police officers and two nurses – all occupants of the car – were injured.,
This publication has, in the past, reported on dangers those illegal structures pose to all categories of road users.
Most of these structures are situated between Numbers 55 and 70 Villages.
The 52/74 NDC has on more than one occasion promised this newscast to go after residents who erect those structures. However, the lives of road users continue to be endangered while authorities allow the situation to exist.
