GPL workers had been doing work on Church St pole prior to collapse

Roy Kirton’s Honda CRV which suffered extensive damage after a utility pole belonging to GPL collapsed on Monday.

Employees from the power company were working on one of the Church Street utility poles on Monday before it fell taking two others with it.

All three poles  belonging to the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) were deemed to have been rotten. One pole crashed onto a Honda CRV that was parked outside the Bonny’s Supermarket.

Stabroek News was made to understand that workers attached to GPL were on the