GDF private on $1M bail for causing fatal accident

Private Shemika Herman of the Guyana Defence Force was on Wednesday placed on $1M bail following her arraignment before Fort Wellington Magistrate Ravindra Mohabir on a charge of causing death by dangerous driving, to which she pleaded not guilty as charged.
Her case has been adjourned to February 27, and a condition attached to her bail is that she must report to the Kitty Police Station once per month until determination of the charge against her.
This 30-year-old resident of Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice (Region Five: (Mahaica-Berbice) is alleged to have driven motor car PAC 2353 in a manner dangerous to the public on July 29, 2024, resulting in 36-year-old Kanrade Lawrence Bacchus of Number 29 Village, West Coast Berbice losing his life.

The police have said that Herman was proceeding in an easterly direction along the northern side of the Number 29 Village public road when she ran her vehicle over Bacchus, who was lying on the northern drive lane thereof; but instead of stopping to render Bacchus assistance, she fled the scene, leaving him critically injured.
Public-spirited citizens later discovered his body lying on the roadway and rushed him to the Fort Wellington Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Police subsequently launched a search for both the driver and vehicle involved in this incident; but, that same morning, Herman presented herself at the Fort Wellington Police Station with the vehicle and was arrested.