The Brazilian taxi driver, alleged to be the cause of the accident at Lethem that left a Brazilian vice-consul dead on Saturday, remains hospitalised in the neighbouring country and the police may need to collect more statements to confirm that he was driving in the wrong lane at the time, Traffic Chief Hugh Denhert says.
Denhert told Stabroek News that his ranks have not yet spoken to the man given the extent of his injuries.
Police had said in a statement hours after the accident that Theotonio Santa Cruz Oliveira, 61, the Brazilian vice-consul in Guyana, was killed after he “collided with a motor vehicle proceeding in the opposite direction that had allegedly veered into his driving lane.” The collision occurred on a stretch of road that leads from the administrative building to the Takutu Bridge on the Guyana side of the border.
Casslyn Singh, her two-year-old son, and Gracelyn Nicholson, the secretary of the Brazilian consulate,