Minibus crushes E’bo toddler

Mar 25, 2014 News

Traffic ranks have already instituted charges of being an unlicensed driver and breach of insurance against Devon Fordyce,the Conductor/Driver who was involved in a fatal accident,at Clerk Street, on the Essequibo Coast on Sunday.
One-year-old, Javiel Peters, was the fatality.

Dead: Javiel Peters, 1

Fordyce, who is currently detained at the Anna Regina lockups, will make his first appearance at the Anna Regina magistrate court today. His minibus has been impounded, also.
Fordyce usually owns minibus BRR 7143. At the time of the accident he was driving his bus.
Police said that Fordyce was proceeding South on eastern side of Clerk Street, Dartmouth, Sunday evening when he attempted to pass a group of children who were said to be playing in the street.
Fordyce reportedly told the police that after he had driven off from where the children were playing he felt something under his wheel.
The police report further indicate the child’s mother was sitting on the eastern side of the street and proceeded to render assistance to the child after he was crushed by the minibus.
The child was subsequently taken to the Oscar Joseph Hospital and later to the Suddie Public Hospital. He died before receiving medical attention.
Molly Hopkinson, who said that she was on the street, explained that little Javiel Peters was in the company of one of his neighbours when he apparently slip out of the young woman’s hands into the street and was struck by a minibus.
Little Javiel Peter’s death is the fourth for the year.
Last month, a seven-year-old, Supenaam Creek boy was struck and killed after he dashed across the Supenaam/Good Hope public road.