Female cop dies after drunken driver crashes into roadblock at BV

– driver jumped traffic light, lost control of Jeep

Police Woman Constable Annette Abel is now dead, and Woman Inspector Shenay Castello is battling for her life at the GPHC after they were reportedly struck down by a speeding jeep during a roadblock exercise at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara on Thursday at about 22:00hrs.
The 53-year-old Abel, of Perth Village, Mahaicony, ECD, had been attached to the Beterverwagting Police Station’s Traffic Department, and Woman Inspector Castello is the Inspector in charge of that Police Station.

The Police have said that Abel and Castello were part of a team conducting a road block exercise outside of the BV station. Abel had stopped motorcars PAB 9932 and PNN 8124, driven respectively by a 30-year-old male of Buxton and a 24-year-old male of North Better Hope, ECD; and both vehicles were stationary when motor Jeep PVV 8278 drove through the red traffic light and collided with the traffic cones which were at the centre of the roadway as part of the roadblock operation.
The Jeep driver, who was later determined to be above the legal limit of alcohol consumption, reportedly lost control of his vehicle, and it slammed into Abel then crashed into motorcar PAB 9932, which then collided with motorcar PNN 8124. The impact spun motorcar PNN 8124, and it then struck Castello and one of the drivers, Chris Allen, flinging them both into the air.

Abel reportedly landed on the road surface about 20 feet away from the scene with her left foot severed from below the knee, while Inspector Castello and Allen landed on the southern grass parapet with bodily injuries they had sustained. The speeding Jeep, meanwhile, reportedly toppled before coming to a halt.
The EMT were summoned to the scene, and Abel was pronounced dead, while Inspector Castello and Allen where rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital to be treated for their injuries.
At the time of the accident, the Jeep had two occupants: a 46-year-old female of ‘A’ Field, South Sophia and a 75-year-old male of East Ruimveldt, Georgetown. The 44-year-old driver Fitzroy Aulder is reportedly from Front Road in East Ruimveldt, Georgetown.
These occupants of the Jeep also sustained injuries, and were taken along with Castello to the GPHC.
Following the accident, Division 4C Commander Khali Pareshram and a team of Police ranks visited the scene. The drunken driver has been taken into custody and is assisting with investigations.
Guyana Times understands that Jeep driver Fitzroy Aulder is no stranger to the court. He was reportedly charged with causing death by dangerous driving in 2015, following an accident involving a speeding minibus he was driving at the time along Durban Street, Georgetown. He had claimed that Romel Junor, the pedestrian who was killed, had been drunk and had walked into the path of the bus he was driving.
In that case, it was reported, that on July 17, 2015, Aulder was driving a minibus that was proceeding at a fast rate along the northern side of Durban Street. He claimed that when the bus reached the corner of Bent and Lime Streets, it collided with the 60-year-old man, who was crossing the road at the time. Due to the impact of the collision, Junor was pitched several feet away. He was picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.