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Woman critical after hit by Canter truck
Gretha Lewis
Gretha Lewis, 60, of 243 Cemetery Road, Mocha Arcadia was struck down by a canter truck at Camp and Barrack Streets yesterday, and is listed as critical in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Hospital.
When this newspaper visited the hospital, the injured woman had been transferred from the theatre to the ICU where she was admitted with her entire head bandaged.
According to an eyewitness, the woman who was standing at the said corner decided to dash across the road but was struck by the canter truck before she reached the other side. The truck was carrying water containers at the time.
“The police then take the driver and the truck into the police station, and the police stop a car that take the lady to the hospital, she look like she gon dead because she get stiff, stiff and start to froth, and she de bleeding bad too,” the eyewitness said.
Upon visiting the injured woman’s house it was disclosed by neighbours that Lewis was a Lance Corporal, who was on pre-retirement leave, and she lived alone.
Lewis, who has no children, reportedly has three brothers and a sister who would randomly visit her while she worked at NIS as a security guard.
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