A resident of Charity, Essequibo Coast, is calling on the relevant authorities to implement stricter measures for owners of animals who allow them to wander along the roadways, following an accident on Saturday afternoon that could have caused her and the other occupant of her car PSS 8374 to be injured.
This newspaper when contacted by the frustrated resident (name given) learnt that she was on her way home with her mother when her car hit a pregnant sheep at around 5.45pm. According to the woman she was going at about 40 miles per hour adding that it was only because she wasn’t going any faster that her car didn’t sustain extensive damage.
At the time of the accident, the driver said she was driving along the road at Plantation Phillips when a flock of sheep ran in front of her vehicle causing her to hit one of them. Neighbours, she said, gathered on their verandahs and at their fences to see what the matter was. She recalled how panicked she was adding that since no one came to their rescue, she held two of the sheep’s hooves while her mother held the other two and placed it on the parapet before taking the animal into a nearby rice field.
