The taxi driver responsible for causing 78-year-old Eileen August to suffer a broken leg and hip after hitting her down with his car, has been apprehended and taken into police custody.
When Stabroek News visited the woman at her bedside in the female surgical ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday, her daughter-in-law with whom this newspaper had initially spoken, said that she was reliably informed by the police that the man had been caught sometime before noon yesterday.
According to her the lawmen had also retrieved the car which was damaged after hitting August.
Up to press time, the injured woman’s daughter-in-law said that information as to the man’s name had not reached her. The woman who requested anonymity did say however that charges are likely to be laid shortly.
Meanwhile, the injured August is said to be in a stable condition and recuperating. When this newspaper visited her yesterday she was chatting with a number of relatives and friends who had gathered around her. A plain spoken August said that she is grateful that the driver had been caught.
“He cause me a whole lot a pain and suffering an I just glad dat de police deh find he,” she said.
According to initial reports reaching Stabroek News, August had been involved in the vehicular accident on July 27 and had been taken to her home by the driver of the car where she spent in excess of ten days fighting excruciating pain up to the time of her arrest on Thursday.
Sources said that sometime after noon, August was standing at the corner of Norton Street and Cemetery Road when a car slammed into her.
The driver of the car is reported to have been in a rush to get to a funeral service which was being held at the Sandy’s Funeral Home. According to reports, since the driver was late, he did not take the woman to the hospital but kept her in the car instead, while he went to the funeral service.
The source said also that the said driver took the woman’s money she had to purchase vegetables at the time of the incident and he bought them instead.
He then enquired from her where and with whom she lived.
Once told the address and that she lived alone, the man then dropped her off at her home and give her the vegetables she was on her way to purchase.
August was forced to urinate and defecate from the said chair in which she was placed by the driver from July 27 up until the time she was found on Thursday night at approximately 10 pm.
The daughter-in-law said that the woman who was dehydrated and in need of food would be kept company by a niece.
The woman explained however that the niece who stays with her mother-in-law is mentally challenged and would have been of little or no help to the injured woman.
