Fatal bridge accident: Unlicensed driver remanded to prison; truck owner gets $50,000 bail

Jomel Kenny, 23, was remanded to prison on Friday after he was charged with driving without a license, breach of insurance, and the faulty packing of the load.

Kenny appeared at the Diamond Magistrate’s Court a day after the fatal multi-vehicular accident on the Bharrat Jagdeo Demerara River Bridge. The accident resulted in the death of 24-year-old Scott Dorwart, a taxi driver from Grove, East Bank Demerara; several others were injured.

The owner of the truck, 55-year-old Antonio Johnson of Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara, was also charged on Friday. He was charged with breach of insurance and permitting an unlicensed driver to operate the vehicle.

Both men pleaded not guilty to the charges; Kenny was remanded and Johnson was placed on $50,000 bail.

In a release issued on Friday, Police Headquarters revealed that the driver of the motor lorry involved was unable to produce documents for the vehicle, and his driver’s licence does not carry the category required to operate a motor lorry.