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Driver in Hope fatal accident on $100,000 station bail

Mar 22, 2011 News

The driver of a route 63 minibus which was involved in last Friday’s accident at Hope, East Coast Demerara, leaving schoolboy Theron Berkshire dead was yesterday released from police custody on $100,000 bail.
The man had been detained since the day of the accident and since investigators will have to wait until tomorrow for a post mortem examination to be performed on the victim’s body before contemplating charges, a decision was taken to grant bail as the 72 hours mandatory detention period had expired.
On Friday last at around 16:15, 14-year-old Berkshire, of Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara, was killed on the spot after he was struck by the minibus just outside the Hope Secondary School also on the East Coast Demerara.
Police in a statement had said that the driver of minibus BMM 576 was proceeding along the roadway when Berkshire allegedly ran into the path of the vehicle while playing Phagwah with other students.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
However, eyewitnesses had claimed that Berkshire was standing on the parapet when a minibus driver who was trying to overtake two vehicles veered onto the parapet and struck him down.
Tyre marks on the parapet supported the evidence of the eyewitness.
A source at the Cove and John Police Station confirmed that statements into the matter have already been taken and there is a definite possibility that the driver will be placed before the court as soon as the post mortem examination is completed.

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