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Pedestrians sometimes contribute to their own demise

Oct 07, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Recently I cause a letter to appear in both the Kaieteur and Stabroek Newspapers relating to the amount of fatal accidents involving pedestrians. In that letter I mentioned that there are times when the victim may have contributed significantly to his or her demise, but it does not matter how much evidence there is in support of the driver’s story including the measurements taken and recorded in the accident report book including the point of impact, the Police will place the driver in the lock ups; place him/her on substantial bail to either report back to the station or attend the Magistrate’s Court after the charge of Causing Death by dangerous driving  has been instituted.
The defendant would on many occasions hire a lawyer to defend themselves of a charge that they and other witnessed including the Police witness know that he was not guilty of. After spending hundreds of thousand dollars on bail and lawyer fees, the defendant and relatives and family going through that period of stress all because of the carelessness and or neglect by the victim.
That is not to say that they are not drivers who are reckless and in so doing may have contributed one hundred percent to the victim’s demise. Yes, we have seen motor vehicles coming off the road and killing people in their yard, and many times also we have seen people walking aimlessly on our road, drunk and lying by the roadside and had it not been for the alertness and skill of the driver, they would have been a minor, serious or fatal accident.
On page ten of Stabroek News, Tuesday 29th September, 2015, under the caption ‘Driver Cleared of killing pedestrian after court finds deceased was negligent’
Whenever a life has been lost due to a road accident we will have to be in sympathy with the family and relatives of the deceased person, but they are times when we allow sentiments and emotions to cloud the issue.
The Police Traffic Department would time and again make available to the public a breakdown of the amount of persons charged for various Traffic Offences, it would certainly make interesting reading if that information can include pedestrians causing obstruction commonly known as ‘jay walking’.
Archie W. Cordis

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