A taxi driver is in critical condition after he allegedly fled a hit-and-run scene yesterday morning and smashed into a Lusignan shed while being chased by another motorist.
Delon Amsterdam of Lot 161 Friendship, East Coast Demerara (ECD) a driver attached to Green Ice taxi service slammed into and destroyed a fence and shed belonging to a Lusignan, ECD resident. The car was left almost perpendicular.
The man who was allegedly hit down by Amsterdam, was identified as seventy-two-year-old Rampersaud Baldur, a security guard of Second Street, LBI, East Coast Demerara (ECD). Accord-ing to one of his neighbours, they were informed about the incident after someone who is well-known to the family visited Baldur’s home and informed them of the news. The woman, said his relatives and friends immediately rushed to the scene where they saw him lying on the road, some distance away from his bicycle. He was picked up and taken to the GPHC. He was treated and sent away after several stitches to a cut on his head.
Ansterdam is at the GPHC in a critical state. Up to late yesterday he underwent a CT scan and was unconscious.
According to reports, Amsterdam allegedly hit the elderly man off his pedal cycle at La Bonne Intention (LBI) Railway Embankment, ECD yesterday morning and in his bid to escape he sped along the embankment road. He was being chased by another vehicle which was trying to get him to stop when he careened into the fence causing the Toyota Premio, HB 7550 car he was driving to flip onto a shed of the Lusignan residence. He was pulled out of a window of the badly damaged car and rushed to the hospital. It is unclear whether he is the owner of the car.
Speaking to Stabroek News, owner of the Lot 1 Lusignan Railway embankment house, James Bharat said that around 6:30 AM yesterday he and his wife were about to leave home to visit their daughter who is in the hospital when he heard a loud impact. Bharat added that upon looking upwards he saw thick dust while the sounds of wood and zinc sheets scattering were heard. Within seconds, Bharat said his entire fence and wooden shed which was located in front of his house was demolished. Bharat estimated his losses at approximately $3M since the shed that was damaged had his parked minibus that was completely damaged and other items.
“From the noise alone that thing make I couldn’t move and I tell myself is a good thing I didn’t reach the gate yet because is knock that man would a knock me”, Bharat said.
When this newspaper visited Bharat’s residence yesterday, he was being assisted by his son and a few other men to rebuild the fence. He said that he will need to be compensated for his losses which he said was due to recklessness.
Eyewitnesses recalled seeing Amsterdam heading east along the embankment road at a very fast rate.
At the hospital yesterday, Amsterdam’s relatives declined to speak about the accident.
