A police rank attached to the Tactical Services Unit at Linden appeared before the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court to answer eleven traffic offences, including hit-and-run, all allegedly committed over a two-week period.
Last week Police Constable Jumane Author, 21, was placed on a total of $65,000 bail for allegedly disregarding six traffic laws – dangerous driving, breach of insurance, failure to report an accident, failure to stop after an accident, failure to render assistance and being an unlicensed hire car driver.
He pleaded not guilty to the offences when he appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christiaburg Magistrate’s Court.
Author was allegedly involved in a hit-and-run accident along the Winifred Gaskin Highway/One Mile Public Road on August 18 this year.
Joan Earl, 52, was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital in a serious condition while Roxanne Halley, 24, was hospitalized at the Linden Hospital Complex after they had been hit by a speeding car which fled the scene.
According to nurses at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC), at the time of Earl’s transfer to Georgetown she was unresponsive after suffering severe head injuries. She also sustained injuries to the hands and feet.
An eyewitness had said that shortly after 8:00 pm he had just walked out of a shop at One Mile Wismar when he noticed two women a short distance ahead of him. “They were both going in the opposite direction when dis silver greyish car came down the road in one speed and hit Joan and pitch she in de gutta and run deh big belly lady off the road,” said the young man who requested not to be named.
According to the man the car had just overtaken another when it drove in the women’s path.
Author of Amelia’s Ward was back in court on Wednesday to answer an additional five traffic offenses – driving an unlicensed motor vehicle, driving a motorcycle without a safety helmet, having an unregistered motor vehicle, an uninsured motor vehicle and being an unlicensed driver. He was placed on a total of $35,000 bail and is to return to court on October 19 for both sets of cases.
