Second pedestrian dies following Mahaicony accident

Lawrence Semple

Another man has succumbed following Sunday afternoon’s accident on the Catherine, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (ECD), Public Road, taking the death toll to two.

Lawrence Semple, 43, a livestock farmer of Catherine, Mahaicony, ECD, died early yesterday morning, after being hospitalised since Sunday evening.  He was a patient of the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where he was nursing a fractured pelvis and femur and internal bleeding.

On Sunday, Semple and his friend Winston Small, who also died as a result of the accident, were walking on the road when they were struck down by a car driven by Jarren Huntley, a police constable who was allegedly speeding.