Another man has succumbed following Sunday afternoon’s accident on the Catherine, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (ECD), Public Road, taking the death toll to two.
Lawrence Semple, 43, a livestock farmer of Catherine, Mahaicony, ECD, died early yesterday morning, after being hospitalised since Sunday evening. He was a patient of the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where he was nursing a fractured pelvis and femur and internal bleeding.
On Sunday, Semple and his friend Winston Small, who also died as a result of the accident, were walking on the road when they were struck down by a car driven by Jarren Huntley, a police constable who was allegedly speeding.