A pensioner who was struck down by a truck yesterday morning on the Houston, East Bank Demerara (EBD), Public Road died after waiting approximately 45 minutes for an ambulance to be transported to the public hospital.
Sixty-nine-year-old Chitraykha Sankar of Lot 61 Houston, EBD was hit by a truck with the licence number GMM 6594 sometime around 7 yesterday morning as she was crossing the public road. Sankar was pronounced dead on the scene of the accident by emergency medical technicians.
A surveillance video shown to Stabroek News showed Sankar getting off a bus on the western side of the road. The woman after getting off the bus waited for the traffic to clear before crossing. As she approached the partition on the four-lane public road she was struck down by the truck registered to K&G Shipping.