Uitvlugt student struck down by police car

A student of the Uitvlugt Secondary School is nursing injuries at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) after she was struck down by a police car PRR 2032 on the pedestrian crossing around 7:50 this morning.
She was rushed to the Leonora Cottage Hospital where she was treated for injuries to her forehead and for minor abrasions.
She was subsequently transferred to the WDRH where her condition is listed as stable.
An eyewitness told Stabroek News that he was in the front seat of the minibus that the girl had just disembarked from.
He recalled that suddenly the speeding police car passed a line of vehicles that had stopped to facilitate the schoolchildren and struck the child.
The man said the child was flung about six feet up in the air and he rushed to assist.
“I see this blue object (the uniform she was wearing) going up in the air… When she dropped on the ground I helped the policeman to open the door to put her in the car and take her to the hospital. ”
According to him, he asked the officer if he was on “official duty” and he said: “Yes, I’m working.”