A 49-year-old man was killed on Wednesday morning after the car which he was driving crashed into a motor lorry and another vehicle on the Schoonord Public Road, West Bank Demerara.
Dead is Joseph Charles of Lot 55 Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, Georgetown. Police have said that Charles was an unlicensed driver. Another occupant in the vehicle with Charles, 23-year-old Alex Saul of Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, has been hospitalised with a fractured leg and hip.
According to reports, motor lorry GWW 4927 was proceeding north along the western side of the Schoonord Public Road while Charles’s car, PVV 4804, was proceeding in the opposite direction, allegedly at a fast rate of speed when Charles reportedly lost control of the vehicle and it collided with the right front side of the lorry.
The Police have said that as a result of the impact, the car spun around and collided with another motor car, PZZ 513. The collision led to Charles and Saul sustaining injuries about their bodies.
Both the driver of the lorry and the driver of the second motor car were unharmed.
With the assistance of ranks of the La Grange Fire Service, Charles and Saul were removed from the wrecked vehicle in an unconscious condition and taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH), where a doctor pronounced Charles dead on arrival.
The aftermath of Wednesday morning’s collision
Saul was admitted as a patient in the Emergency Unit of the hospital, suffering from a fractured left hip and leg. He is now in stable condition.
Charles’s body is presently lying at the West Demerara Hospital mortuary, awaiting post mortem examination.
Police have said that at the accident scene, the driver of the motor lorry, a 41-year-old resident of Timehri Public Road, East Bank Demerara, was breathalysed, but no trace of alcohol was found in his breath. A notice of intended prosecution has, nonetheless, been served, as further enquiries are in progress. (G8)
