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Car crash, cuts Kitty electricity supply
Residences of Public Road, Kitty were up to yesterday afternoon without electricity supply after a car crashed into a lamp post in the area.
About 5:30 hrs, the driver of Toyota 192 Carina motor car PLL 3077 lost control of his vehicle and slammed into an electrical lamp pole, severing the electric wires before ending in a drain outside the former Sapodilla Bar and Grill.
The scene at 42 Public Road, Kitty following a car crash yesterday morning.
The car had slammed into the wall of the house at 42 Public Road, Kitty before parking over a drain outside the building now used by the Classique Dance Theatre.
The car has been totalled.
Residents at the location said that they hard a loud crash and they lost power to their homes. “When we run outside we see the car in the fence and the driver like he in shock, standing up on the road looking at the car. Then when we look we see a woman in there bleeding,” one resident recalled.
She said that with the help of some persons who were still in their night clothes they managed to pull the dazed woman out of the vehicle and sent her to the hospital in a taxi. They say that the man who appeared to be in his early 20’s was taken from the scene by police ranks but “he come back by he self a li’l while after”.
While the hospital has no record of the accident, it is recorded that Evelyn English, 62, of North Haslington, went to the medical institution at about 6:55hrs and was treated for trauma to her body. She was later discharged.
Fabulous was written across the car’s front windscreen and Kaieteur News observed, too, that all other windows were shattered. Both rear tyres were broken off. Residents said, “He lucky he ain’t get hurt bad. Worse yet; how that car crush up especially on he side he should have been dead,” one woman said.
Phyllis Gordon, of 40 Public Road, Kitty, told Kaieteur News that the accident occurred before 6:00hrs this morning, and we are not having any electricity because of the accident, we called Guyana Power and Light and were told that “we coming before the day done but is after two o’clock and they ain’t reach here yet.”
This newspaper observed that there were many glasses and alcohol bottles in the car and trunk.
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