Last Updated on Saturday, 14 September 2024, 12:12 by Writer
A 28-year-old man was killed and two others injured in an early Saturday morning road accident when the driver lost control of the car on the Cottage, Mahaicony Public Road and slammed into a fence and a utility pole.
The dead man has been identified as Collin Dowden of Lot 2 Belle Vue, West Coast Berbice. Those injured and transferred from the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation are 36-year-old Ron Robertson of Number 42 Village, West Coast Berbice, and 17-year-old Tyreece McDonald of Seafield, West Coast Berbice.
Police said the car, bearing licence number PJJ 2006, was being driven by 23-year-old Shakeem Booker of Seafield, West Coast Berbice.
Investigators were told that the car was speeding east along Cottage public road when Mr Booker lost control and ended up on the southern grass parapet, colliding with a concrete and mesh fence and then into a utility pole.