Queenstown residents nab accident driver

Jul 19, 2015 News

A Queenstown, Essequibo Coast carpenter was struck down and killed on the Queenstown Public road Saturday afternoon by a drunken driver.

Derreck Glasgow

Dead is 63-year-old Derreck Glasgow, a/k “Puddle”. The dead man’s grieving wife, Luciani Abrams related that she was at her 53 Bedford Street home when she received a call from her friend, Coleen who told her that her husband just got knocked down and died.
Abrams explained that her husband of 20 years had left for work Saturday morning and returned around midday before venturing back on the road.
Abrams said that before her husband’s demise he was imbibing with a friend.”He was working with “Choices” and he told me that he was going to buy poison to spray the yard.
Villagers who converged at the scene related that Glasgow and a friend had ventured out of a yard at Queenstown and was heading North along the Eastern half of the public road when he was struck down and killed by the driver of PMM 6118, who was heading South apparently speeding.
After the accident the driver who is in police custody escaped out of his damaged car and attempted to hide. Villagers successfully accosted him and handed him and the three other occupants to the police.
The police visited the scene and conducted their investigations.