Police are yet to arrest the suspect in the hit and run accident at Eccles Public road on Wednesday night, which claimed the life of a woman and left her partner hospitalised.
Orwin Whittington, 35, of Alberttown, was riding a motorcycle along with his girlfriend, Latoya Thompson, 27, of Craig, East Bank Demerara when they were hit by a car that ran a traffic light.
Thompson died on spot, while Whittington was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he is still admitted.
The bed-ridden Whittington, who has a broken shoulder, bruised ribs, and a fractured hip, told Stabroek News yesterday that Thompson had been calling him earlier in the night to transport her home.
“I was up in Demico [Stabroek Sports Bar] whole night and she de calling me and I wasn’t answering. I seh she woulda go home,” Whittington said.
He explained that the woman had just ended her shift at the Hicksville Hotel, in West Ruimveldt and it was customary for him to drop her to her Craig home. However, he ignored her calls as he
