Police van ends up in trench during high speed chase

Dec 04, 2014 News

…following chase of suspect on CG motorbike

In what can be termed a rehash of a Tom and Jerry scene, a police van was knocked into a trench

The police van “resting” in the trench.

yesterday seconds after it slammed into a taxi, at the intersection of Barima Avenue and Rupununi Street, Bel Air Park, Georgetown.
The accident occurred at around 11:45 hours; a stone’s throw away from the Ministry of Education Annex building.
Reports are that the police were chasing after a suspect who was riding a CG motorcycle. The police vehicle was closing in on the motorcyclist when it slammed into the taxi, HB3993 which was proceeding south along Rupununi Street.
The accident afforded the suspect enough time to jump off his motorcycle at the dead-end intersection and escape through a resident’s yard in Barima Avenue. Kaieteur News understands that the motor cyclist was a man the police have been tracking for some time.
From all indications, the police will continue the man-hunt.
When Kaieteur News arrived on the scene, the right side of police van, PKK 726, was submerged in the trench. There were, at that time, two Guyana Defence Force ranks, three traffic ranks, two police constables and a sergeant on the scene.
Investigations were being conducted and the ranks had detained the sister of the suspect whom eye witnesses say was the pillion rider on the motorcycle at one point during the chase. He (the suspect)

The damaged taxi at the scene yesterday.

allegedly let her off as the chase intensified.
No one was hurt during the incident.
Ranks on the scene were heard saying that the suspect fearlessly drove north up the eastern half of Vlissengen Road (a one way) before turning onto Barima Avenue. The cops were confident that had the accident not occurred, the suspect would have been arrested.
Meanwhile driver of the taxi involved in the accident, Rayon Murdeen said he was driving south along Rupununi Street but the noise from “an electric saw” operating from one of the houses prevented him from hearing the police sirens.
He recalled seeing a man seated on a black motorcycle speeding east along Barima Avenue. The 38-year-old claimed he had not heard the siren so he continued driving. Shortly after, his vehicle collided with the police van and was sent hurling onto Barima Avenue.
His windscreen was cracked and wheel punctured. The right side of his vehicle was badly dented.
Meanwhile, the suspect’s sister was detained by the cops. The young lady was crying. When asked the reason she was crying, she said that it was unfair that she was being held for her brother’s actions.