A 25-year-old truck driver died on Friday following a hit-and-run accident along the Coldingen Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
Dead is Adzel Inniss of Burma Housing Scheme, Mahaicony, ECD. Police Headquarters reported that the accident occurred at about 04:30 hrs on Friday.
According to the report, Inniss stopped at the Chico Ramas Gas Station at Coldingen and exited the truck (GAC 1443) which he was driving and stepped into the path of a black Toyota Fielder Wagon.
Police said the driver of the Fielder Wagon fled the scene after the accident. The car’s registration number and the driver’s identity are currently unknown.
Inniss was picked up by public-spirited citizens and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The body is at the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home awaiting a post-mortem examination.
Truck driver stopped, exited his truck and stepped into the path of a Fielder Wagon ?
Maybe, he just forgot to look for oncoming traffic. At the same time, the driver of that Fielder Wagon
should have stopped and render assistance to the injured. Fleeing from an involved accident scene is not
what any responsible driver should do. Perhaps, he just couldn’t stop in time to avoid this accident. The fact
that a vehicle has stopped ahead of you, precautions should have been taken to slow down and approach
the passing cautiously but, everybody seems in a hurry to go somewhere.