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Pedestrian struck by sand truck still critical

Sep 21, 2011 News

The pedestrian, Trevor Melville, who was struck down by a sand truck on Sunday last, near his home at Friendship, East Bank Demerara is still in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
According to Melville’s sister, Doreen James, her brother is showing signs of improvements as he is now off the life support machine, but still has tubes attached to his nose.
James noted that it is yet unclear whether the 48-year-old man will be able to use his left leg that was seriously injured in the accident.
The woman revealed that when she visited the Diamond/Grove Police Station, East Bank Demerara to ascertain the progress of the investigations into the matter, the police informed her that they have a man in custody.
However, the name of the individual is unknown to the family and the only lead they have is the licence plate of the truck that struck Melville.
According to Melville’s daughter, Jessica Melville, who witnessed the accident, she was standing on her step watching her father cross the road when the truck “appeared from nowhere” and struck him down.
Jessica emphasised that the driver and his female passenger stepped out of the truck and started quarrelling with a pedestrian who voiced his concerns about the accident. She recalled that the woman started shouting “he shoulda dead, he wan drunk man’.
However, Jessica claimed that her father was not intoxicated.
Jessica related that the truck driver left her father on the roadway and the family was forced to pay a taxi $6,000 to take her dad to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, East Bank Demerara, where he was given saline and attempts were made to stop the bleeding. Melville was then transferred to GPHC for further treatment.

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