No charges yet for driver in Moblissa fatal accident

Almost two weeks after 27-year-old Parbatie Wilfred of Yarrowkabra Village was struck and killed by motor vehicle HD 119, charges are yet to be laid against the driver, who is a 50-year-old resident of Amelia’s Ward, Mackenzie, Linden.

Commander of Region Four B (Eccles-Moblissa), Superintendent Kurleigh Simon in a brief telephone interview with Guyana Times on Monday stated that the file is still with the Director of Public Prosecutions’ Office and he is unsure when it will be returned.
“We haven’t charged anyone as yet. The DPP has it and that will dictate,” he said.
Reports stated that Wilfred was walking along the roadway when she was struck by the motor vehicle at around 23:30h in the vicinity of the Moblissa Public Road.
The driver reportedly told Police that he was heading to Georgetown when he saw the woman crossing the road and into his path.
According to the driver, upon realising that he might hit the woman, he applied brakes, but despite his efforts, the right front of his car collided with her.
She was reportedly tossed onto the bonnet thence to the front windscreen before hitting the road’s surface. The woman sustained several injuries about her body and was picked up in an unconscious state by ambulance and taken to the Linden Hospital Complex where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
The now dead woman’s body was later identified by her brother.