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Nanda Gopaul rams into parked car, injures occupants
– denies being under the influence
Deputy Cabinet Secretary and Permanent Secretary (PS) Office of the President, Dr. Nanda Gopaul, was questioned by police traffic ranks last night after driving his car into the back of another vehicle and injuring the other driver’s wife and a male passenger.
The accident occurred at around 20:00 hrs near the Guyana Legions headquarters in Carifesta Avenue.
The injured woman, Jennifer Loncke, was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s Accident and Emergency Unit with injuries to her hips and shoulders.
P.S. Gopaul shortly after the accident
The male passenger, identified as Dwayne Blair, sustained minor injuries to the head.
Dr Gopaul was escorted to the Brickdam Police Station, where police ranks were reportedly preparing to have him take a breathalyzer test.
However, Kaieteur News was told that a senior officer instructed traffic ranks to have Dr Gopaul released on his own recognizance.
His car was also removed from the Brickdam Police Station compound to where it had been towed in the wake of the accident.
The victims are members of the From the Heart Ministry, and had just left a church meeting at the Guyana Legions headquarters when misfortune struck.
Colin Loncke, the victim’s husband, told Kaieteur News that he had parked his car on Carifesta Avenue, and his wife was about to enter when Gopaul’s car slammed into the back of his vehicle.
“She had put her bag and Bible in the car and was about to enter when I heard ‘badam’,” Mr. Loncke said.
Other eyewitnesses said that Loncke’s vehicle, which suffered extensive damage, was shifted several feet from the point of impact.
Dr Gopaul was still at the scene when Kaieteur News arrived, and smelled of alcohol.
However, he denied being drunk and gave another version of the circumstances that led to the accident. According to Dr Gopaul, he was driving east along Carifesta Avenue behind Loncke’s vehicle when he was forced to swerve from two minibuses, which were heading in the same direction.
The P.S said that he then slammed into the back of Loncke’s car.
He also told traffic ranks at the scene that he was to blame for the accident.
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