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Speeding car hits two on pedestrian crossing

Nov 22, 2009 News

Two young women are now patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after they were struck down by a speeding car on a pedestrian crossing on Mandela Avenue.
The two are Lisa Brown, 24, of D‘Urban Backlands and Riha Gopaul, 23, of Providence, East Bank Demerara.
According to an eyewitness, the women were crossing Mandela Avenue, between D’Urban and Hadfield Streets, when they were struck down by a speeding car, PGG 7659, as they were on the pedestrian crossing.
The driver of the car, David Britton, claimed that the two, in an attempt to evade an oncoming pickup ran into the path of his car.
He added that he was unable to stop and as such he hit them. The driver added that had they stopped in the middle of the road between his vehicle and the pickup they may not have been hit.
However, an eyewitness told Kaieteur News that the car was speeding and the girls were about to negotiate the pedestrian crossing when they were hit and hurled some distance into the air.
“He hit them and fling them high in the air… I thought them girls did dead,” the eyewitness said.
The eyewitness opined that apart from the driver speeding, he may not have seen the girls because of the dark clothing they were wearing.
The police have detained the driver of the car and up to press time the status of the women was undetermined.
When the women arrived at the hospital they were bloodied and in obvious pain. That accident was the second for the night.

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