The driver of the vehicle assigned to Mayor of Ubraj Narine, who was involved in the accident in which Buxton resident Mitford Cambridge was killed along the Turkeyen Public Road on Tuesday, has been released on station bail.
Stabroek News was reliably informed that the driver, a 42-year-old resident of Nonpareil, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was released on station bail pending further investigation of the accident.
Cambridge, 53, of Lot 11 Section ‘C’ Middle Walk, Buxton, ECD, was the lone person injured around 2.30 pm on Tuesday when the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) vehicle crashed into his car and two others parked in the vicinity of MovieTowne.
He was said to have been seated in his car, PHH 1846, when the accident unfolded.
Cambridge succumbed around 2.50 pm on Wednesday at the Georgetown Public Hospital, while receiving medical attention.
Enquiries, this newspaper was told, revealed that at the time of the accident, the driver of the M&CC vehicle, PTT 8909, was proceeding west along the southern side of the public road, allegedly at a fast rate.
The driver reportedly told the police that he fell asleep, resulting in the vehicle hitting the concrete median on the southern side of the road, in front of MovieTowne. The vehicle then crashed into Cambridge’s car and two other cars— PPP 75 and HC 2695.
The M&CC in a press statement on Tuesday, said that Narine was not in the vehicle at the time of the accident.
When this newspaper had visited the scene, persons in the area accused the driver of the M&CC vehicle of speeding, while others said that he had fallen asleep.
