Latest update November 14th, 2024 12:12 AM
Police corporal hospitalized following accident
A police corporal is nursing a broken left foot at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after he was struck down by an alleged drunk driver late Wednesday night on the Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road.
The injured policewoman
The accident occurred at 22:05hrs.
Corporal Margaret Bissoon, of Lot 2037 Diamond New Scheme, East Bank Demerara also sustained five broken ribs. Her left leg was broken in two places.
On her hospital bed yesterday, the policewoman said that she had just left home to go to work for her shift which started at 23:00hrs.
“I came out of the new scheme (Diamond) in a short drop car and I stopped about two yards away from the Demerara Bank Limited. I was waiting on a minibus,” the mother of six recalled.
She explained that she was standing between the incomplete four-lane expansion road and the old road. According to Margaret, as she turned to her left to look for a bus, she noticed a bright light approaching her.
“This car turned onto the main public road without stopping and he dashing from this corner to that corner. I say to myself like this man drunk so I tried to run off the road and that was the last thing I remember.”
According to the policewoman, her son who went to the scene informed her that he saw a lot of beer bottles in the driver’s car.
The driver who is in police custody at the Diamond Police Station reportedly claimed that he dodged from a pothole and ended up hitting the mother of six.
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