Elderly man left to suffer on busy N/A Road

Jun 24, 2012 News

A senior citizen collapsed on the Strand Public Road some time after 10:00 hrs yesterday, in front of the Bank of Nova Scotia and in the busy New Amsterdam Market/Strand shopping area.

The elderly citizen lying in an unconscious state in the middle of the busy Strand Road yesterday.

Vehicle after vehicle passed by as did shopper after shopper and nobody lifted a finger to get the man off the road. Interestingly, too, a traffic rank (in photo) was less than fifty metres away from where the man was lying in an unconscious state.
The rank stood at the corner of the road and pretended to see nothing unusual, even though drivers and cyclists had to maneuver around the man to avoid running over him.
Kaieteur News was informed that the man was lying in the hot sun on the hot road for nearly an hour, before a good Samaritan who was waiting in a line to use the Scotia Bank ATM machine volunteered to move him on to the pavement and away from the hot sun.
From all indications, after the man was removed by the good Samaritan from the roadway, he was left there on the bank pavement.
The guard at the bank then questioned why the man was placed there since he was in the way of persons and vehicles that may turn up to use the 24- hour- deposit facility at the bank.