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High Court police corporal succumbs two weeks later
Dead: accident victim 53 year-old Corporal of Police Bertrand Edwards.
After battling for life for almost two weeks at the Georgetown Public Hospital, Police Corporal Bertrand Edwards succumbed to his injuries. The man’s relatives told this newspaper that he drew his last breath around 04:45 hours yesterday while at the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
On June 8, last 53-year-old Edwards, was riding his motorcycle along Mandela Avenue in the vicinity of Alexander Village when he was struck down by a fast moving Toyota Ist PKK5540. Reports are that the vehicle made a sudden turn across Edwards’s path in an attempt to enter Alexander Village.
Edwards’s right leg was crushed; public-spirited persons, using a pick-up belonging to a Good Samaritan, rushed him to the hospital. The driver of the car fled into Alexander Village where he locked the vehicle and disappeared.
Except for a small scrape on the car’s front bumper and some blood on the fog lamp, there was no other visible damage to the vehicle. Subsequently a man turned himself over to the police saying he was the person involved in the accident.
Meanwhile according to the man’s wife, Donalda Gonsalves-Edwards, her husband seemed to have been recovering well but took a turn for the worse following the amputation of his leg. She told this newspaper that the leg was badly damaged but her husband was very reluctant to have his leg amputated.
She said that given the fact that her husband was diabetic, his health began to deteriorate because of the damaged leg.
The woman added that it was on Saturday after seeing his condition that doctors at the hospital telephoned her asking her to sign a consent form to have his leg amputated.
After being in the hospital male medical ward since his admission, Edwards had to be transferred to the Intensive Care Unit immediately after the surgery.
In the meantime the supposed driver of the vehicle was detained some time yesterday pending the outcome of a post mortem examination.
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