Car crash causes morning black-out on East Bank

Guyana Power and Light (GPL) technicians working to restore the utility pole and power at Covent Garden yesterday.

A  24-year-old man early yesterday morning cheated death, receiving only minor injuries, after  the car he was driving slammed into a utility pole, turned turtle and then crashed  into the fence and balustrading of a Covent Garden house. Many consumers on the East Bank were without power as a consequence of the accident.

An eyewitness told Stabroek News that the car, a Toyota Allion, PNN 6186, driven by Orlando Spencer was proceeding rapidly north along the East Bank Demerara Public Road when the driver seemed to lose control, subsequently crashing head on into the pole