A video editor attached to the Evening News is hoping to be compensated by the Demerara Harbour Bridge Company (DHBC) for damage caused to his motorcycle during Tuesday’s collapse of the connecting posts on the bridge.
Aggrey Halley told Stabroek News on Wednesday evening that he has since met with the General Manager of the DHBC Rawlston Adams who has instructed his engineers to conduct an assessment of the damage to the motorcycle. Another meeting between the two parties is scheduled to discuss the way forward.
Recounting the events of Tuesday, Halley said he was returning to the city after dropping his wife and child home, when a connecting post on the bridge collapsed, causing him to lose control of his motorcycle. “I was proceeding to town, when a truck which was heading in the opposite direction passed over one of the plates on the bridge, and like the weight from the truck lifted the plate up about two feet which caused me to pitch from my bike,” he shared. “Me and the bike start rolling and end up rolling straight into this Canter…people told me that a little bit more and I could have fly off the bridge,” he added.