Mandela Avenue hit-and-run accident… Police still hunting for driver of GWI’s vehicle

Mar 02, 2014 News

Police are still looking for the driver attached to the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), who they suspect was involved in the hit-and-run accident Wednesday night on Mandela Avenue, which resulted in the death of a 46-year-old food vendor.
Claude McPherson called ‘Chippy’ was struck by an SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle) and dragged at least 100 yards from the point of impact. He was found in front of a shop with his bicycle badly mangled. His leg was severely crushed.
The father of six died a few hours after the accident at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Luckily, eyewitnesses managed to take note of the vehicle’s registration number and handed it over to the police and the dead man’s relatives.
Less than an hour after the accident, the driver reportedly parked a damaged vehicle bearing the same registration number PRR 2923 as the one involved in the accident, in the company’s Vlissingen Road and Church Street compound.
According to GWI, the driver reported to work the following day and submitted a written report of an accident. He claimed that he had hit a horse and asked for time-off to visit a relative in the hospital. He has not reported for duty since.
Information of the damaged vehicle parked in GWI’s compound somehow got to the ears of the dead man’s relatives and a family member, Shaka Chase visited the water company to confirm the news.
“Me and a friend went there and we saw the vehicle and next to that vehicle had another GWI vehicle and the driver was sitting inside, so my friend went and asked him what happened to the other vehicle, and the driver said that the driver (of PRR 2923) said he hit a horse,” Chase had told this newspaper.
According to Chase, the driver then picked up his phone and attempted to call the driver of the damaged SUV, but the man’s phone was switched off.
“He tried to call another worker but his phone was off too, but then he spotted him coming out the office and he called him.”
Kaieteur News was further told that the other GWI worker, when asked what had happened to the damaged SUV, said that the driver hit down somebody and drove away.
“When he said that, right away I said it was my uncle, and the man just ask if it was the accident on Mandela Avenue and I said yes, and he immediately walk back to the office,” Chase had said.
Investigators have visited the home of the driver involved, but he was nowhere to be found.

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