Four persons including a pregnant woman were hit by a drunk driver shortly after 10pm last evening as they walked home from church on Mandela Avenue.
Last night at the Georgetown Public Hospital Loren La Rose 46, of 4589 Rasville West Ruimveldt was bleeding from the nose, while her daughter Geneesa La Rose,19, who was said to be five or six months pregnant was lying on a stretcher muddied and with bad bruising on the left side of her face. One of her neighbour’s children, Tenisha Waldron, 13, was bleeding from a head wound and had one eye swollen shut, and the other, Samantha Nichols, 17, was kneeling next to Loren complaining that her heart and back were hurting. Loren and Waldron were in wheelchairs as they awaited treatment in the Accident and Emergency Unit.
According to Nichols, “We were going home from church walking coming pun the back road” when they were hit by a car. According to a family friend the four were returning to their home after attending the West Ruimveldt Full Gospel Church.
The friend told this newspaper that the vehicle which hit the quartet was going in an easterly direction along Mandela Avenue “when he swerve in the corner and hit them when they come out the corner from the church.”
The driver was taken to the police by a man in a vehicle which was behind him, while two other cars rushed the injured to the hospital.
