A family of six is now homeless after a speeding vehicle knocked a Non Pareil house off its stilts yesterday afternoon.
Eyewitnesses told Stabroek News that the driver of a white Altezza, licence plate PSS 9611 was speeding down the Railway Embankment Road travelling east when the car flipped, travelled across two lots and crashed into Lot 476 Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara. The incident occurred around 5.30 pm.
The two-bedroom home crashed to the ground and shifted east due to the impact. Stabroek News understands that Nicola Lyken was resting and her four young children, all under 10 years, were on the front veranda at the time of the impact.
No one inside the house was seriously injured, however the driver was pitched from the vehicle and is said to be suffering from broken bones. He was rushed to a private hospital. “He smelled like alcohol, a lot…the way his arm twist he was hurt”, one person at the scene stated. Another told this publication “how he flip, how he plunge through them two post and crash. It was the top, the car crash in from the top.”
The woman’s sister was at the scene clearing valuables from the damaged home and told Stabroek News that her brother in law who is currently in the interior was notified and he will be making his way to town in the
