A man died this morning after a car slammed into him as he was walking on the Plaisance Road. The car also struck seven-year-old Michelle Joseph who is now hospitalized.
The body of the man was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC). He has since been identified as Andrew Hanover Glasgow, 45, of Middle Walk Victoria. His family said he had been on his way to work at the time of the accident
According to an eyewitness, the accident occurred at about 7:40 am. A mint green-coloured 212 car, PMM 3202 was about to pass another on the inside when the driver of that car shifted gear and he took evasive action and hit Glasgow who was walking down the road.
“I hear the bam and when I look over I see the child flipping over the vehicle and she landed near to the drain,” the eyewitness said.
The eyewitness said another child was also with her but she was not hit.
A man and woman who were in the car at the time exited and took out “something in a white salt bag and disappear.” He said that the driver of the car was nowhere to be found.
Alicia Joseph, the mother of the seven-year-old girl of Ogle Airstrip Road, told Stabroek News that her daughter was on her way to the St Paul’s Primary School when she was hit. She said the mother of the other child called her and “I didn’t even go to the scene to see what happen I just come straight to the hospital to see my child.”
She said the other child is unhurt but she “home trembling.” The anxious mother said her daughter has a deep gash to her forehead and she was unconscious when she arrived at the hospital but she has regained consciousness and “asking for me.”
The woman said her daughter and her friend have gone to school together every morning from the time she started primary school. Joseph said because it was raining she had suggested to her daughter that she stay at home but she insisted that she go to school.
“She said to me ‘Mommy I can’t skip school because when I ent do good you does vex.’ But is best I did keep her home,” the woman said.
