For the fifth time, a Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara (EBD) resident is counting his losses after a speeding car slammed into his fence resulting in severe damage.
Faizul Razac of Lot 38 Public Road, Bagotstown told Stabroek News he awoke around 3.45 am yesterday after hearing a thunderous noise.
Razac said he immediately suspected that a vehicle had slammed into his fence and when he went outside his suspicions were confirmed. He saw a section of his northern fence wrecked and the vehicle, PVV 5542, resting on the right side.
Stabroek News was told that from all indications the driver was under the influence of alcohol and speeding when the incident occurred. The driver ran off the road, collided with a utility post and slammed into the fence.
Razac said public-spirited persons who were also awakened by the loud noise, rendered assistance in removing the driver, who sustained minor injuries, from the vehicle, and taking him to the hospital. The police arrived shortly after.
There have been similar incidents which saw Razac incurring losses. He stressed that most accidents occur when the road is clear. “When they have heavy traffic during the day this don’t happen. It is in the early morning when the traffic is light. The drivers speed and drive off the road,” Razac lamented.
He called on drivers to be more cautious on the road and refrain from drinking and driving.
When he spoke with Stabroek News, he could not estimate the cost of the damage as he would need such information from his contractor.
In 2011, a speeding car had cleared the fence and landed in the living room of the upper floor of his building.
That day, he had awakened around 4 am to begin preparing for Ramadan observances and was in the lower flat of the house reading his Quran, when he felt “an earthquake like shake” and things falling on him. He had screamed for his wife, who was in one of the bedrooms in the upper flat of their home with their one-year-old daughter. He said as he looked up, he was in shock when he noticed the car parked in his living room and the occupants screaming for help.
Razac said he had gone upstairs to verify that his wife, Aleema, and daughter, Aneesa, were okay. He added that the four occupants of the car were groaning and upon investigation seemed to be too heavily under the influence of alcohol to exit the vehicle on their own.
