Construction worker on bail for supervisor’s death in highway crash

Aug 14, 2014 News

A construction worker has been charged with Causing Death by Dangerous Driving following a crash on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, which claimed the life of a supervisor attached to the Kuru Kururu Training Centre.
Six months after the fatal accident, 39-year-old Floyd Archer appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and was granted $500,000 bail.
The charge against Archer detailed that on February 16, last at Marudi Public Road on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, he drove in a manner dangerous to the public while piloting motor car PPP9053 thereby causing Jasmine Norton’s death.
Archer pleaded not guilty to the charge and submitted an application for reasonable bail through his lawyer, Mark Conway. The case was prosecuted by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Deneashwar Maindranauth who did not reveal the details of the accident.
Conway, however, told the court that about 21:00 hours that night, Archer left Linden and was travelling towards the city. The lawyer explained that the bright lights from another vehicle blinded his client causing him to run into a parked truck.
The truck, he said, had lumber extending from its rear at the time and the car smashed into the wood, and Norton, 21, who was seated in the passenger seat, was killed.
Conway claimed that there had been another accident about two hours prior to that collision at the same spot involving the said truck which had no reflectors.
The court was told that the accident has caused Archer to suffer both financially and emotionally, since he was a close friend of Norton’s.
In his bail request, Conway told the court that his client was no flight risk since he had been residing at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke-Linden, with his pregnant spouse and three children for the past five years.
The application met with no objections from the Prosecution. Maindranauth asked the court to order that Archer lodge his passport or any other travel document and report every Friday to the Timehri Police Station at 9:00 hours.
The Magistrate granted bail and Archer was ordered to report weekly to the Station Sergeant at Timehri. The case was adjourned and the defendant will appear before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on October 21.

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