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Sophia man killed in Sheriff Street hit-and-run accident
Edward Sylvester Jeffers
Police have launched a massive search for the driver of a car that was involved in a hit-and-run accident, which has left 50-year-old Edward Sylvester Jeffers dead.
Jeffers was killed on the spot after he was struck down by the car on Sheriff Street around 03:00 hours yesterday.
According to eyewitnesses, Jeffers was hurled several feet into the air and landed a few yards from where he was picked up by the speeding car.
His mangled body lay on the roadway until it was taken away by porters from the Lyken Funeral Parlour.
Police in a press release said that Jeffers of Plum Park, Sophia was struck down on Sheriff Street in the vicinity of the Campbellville Secondary School by a motorcar, which number is unknown.
The police stated that Jeffers was attempting to cross the road from east to west when he was struck down.
This newspaper, however, understands that investigators have managed to secure a portion of the car’s licence plate and are trying to piece it together with a view to properly identify the vehicle.
In the meantime, they are appealing to the errant driver to turn himself in.
Speaking with this newspaper yesterday, Jeffers’s niece, Natasha Ferdinand, recalled that she was asleep when she was aroused around minutes to four by a cousin who informed her that Jeffers was struck down on Sheriff Street and died on the spot.
“I was made to understand that the car hit him in front of the Sheriff (Night Club) and his body ended up in front a Chinese shop. Witnesses say that when the car hit him, he went up in the air as high as the electric wire and came down back,” Ferdinand told this newspaper.
She said that her husband went to the scene and identified the body.
“He came back and he told me that what he saw made him upset. He even vomit. His (Jeffers) hand was wrapped around his body and one foot was folded, and from that I knew he had to die instantly. It really sad,” Ferdinand stated.
The woman said that she is aware that the police are desperately trying to locate the car that struck her uncle down and she was very complimentary of the rank who is spearheading the investigation.
“I’m very much grateful to one Corporal Webster because I heard she’s working very hard to bring the driver to justice,” Ferdinand said.
This newspaper was told that after striking down Jeffers, the occupants of the car were overheard arguing among themselves in a Regent Street fuel station.
“They were saying, ‘We just knock down a man’,” a source told this newspaper.
Jeffers was described as a father of one, who did odd jobs in the Sophia area.
“Whoever it is that did this, I’m asking to please be bold and come forward. It’s a life, it’s not a pig.
It’s a human being. Don’t matter he was a ‘smokey’ or whatever, he was a human being,” the dead man’s niece appealed. Meanwhile,
police in Berbice are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 00:45 hrs on Sunday on the No. 74 Village Public Road, resulting in the death of Alex Johnson, 39, of Lot 1 ‘B’ No. 35 Village, Corentyne.
According to the police, Johnson and seven other persons, including the driver Ravindra Prettipaul, were in motorcar PFF 405 which was speeding along the public road when it ran into a heap of mud.
The driver lost control of the vehicle which collided with a lamp pole and ended up crashing into a nearby yard.
All of the occupants of the car were all taken to the Skeldon Hospital where Johnson was pronounced dead on arrival.
Prettipaul was admitted and the six others were treated and sent away.
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