The driver who fled the scene of the accident that resulted in the death of Vanessa Forde at Stewartville, West Coast Demerara on Tuesday evening says that he was mobbed.
Forde, an internet café employee of Lot 31 Stewartville Housing Scheme (WCD) was pronounced dead on arrival at the Leonora Cottage Hospital.
The man has told investigators that he was fearful for his life so he drove off. But the woman’s father, Desmond Forde was not willing to accept that and said he begged the man to take his daughter to the hospital but he refused.
He also told Stabroek News last evening that even if the man was afraid of being mobbed he could have still stopped at the Leonora Police Station and reported the accident.
According to Forde, the driver was later found in another WCD village as he attempted to change his number plate.
Vanessa, an internet café employee of Lot 31 Stewartville Housing Scheme (WCD) was standing on the roadway with her only child, Zidaine Moore as they waited to get across the road.
The child was saved and suffered only minor injuries after his mother pushed him out of danger’s way onto the nearby parapet.
Forde said his daughter was “standing on the left hand side of the road, a driver speeding coming from Parika side to town slam into her pitching her into the gutter and then drove away when I asked him to help me take her to the hospital.”:
The distraught man said that it was a passing minibus that stopped and assisted him taking his daughter to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
The driver was later found in another WCD village as he attempted to change his number plate.
Meanwhile, the father said the post-mortem examination would be conducted on Vanessa’s remains tomorrow.
