The man who was injured on Tuesday afternoon after the motor vehicle assigned to the Mayor of Georgetown, Ubraj Narine crashed into his car and two others along the Turkeyen Public Road, East Coast Demerara yesterday succumbed to his injuries at a city hospital.
A police source last evening confirmed with Stabroek News that Mitford Cambridge, 53, of Lot 11 Section ‘C’ Middle Walk Buxton, ECD succumbed around 2.50 pm at the Georgetown Public Hospital, while receiving medical attention.
Cambridge was the lone person injured in the accident which had occurred around 2.30 pm on Tuesday in the vicinity of MovieTowne.
He was said to have been seated in his motor car, PHH 1846 when the accident unfolded.
He was rescued from the wrecked vehicle by public-spirited citizens and was rushed to the hospital in an unconscious conditon.
The Mayor in a Facebook post last evening offered condolences to the family and friends of Cambridge.
Enquiries, this newspaper was told revealed that at the time of the accident, the driver of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) vehicle, PTT 8909 was proceeding west along the southern side of the public road, allegedly at a fast rate of speed.
The driver, a 42-year-old resident of Non-Pareil, ECD reportedly told the police that he fell asleep resulting in the vehicle hitting the concrete median on the southern side of the road, in front of Movie Town.
The vehicle, then crashed into Cambridge’s motor car and two others; PPP 75 and HC 2695.
The driver is said to be in police custody assisting with investigations.
The M&CC in a press statement on Tuesday said that Narine was not in the vehicle at the time of the accident.
When this newspaper had visited the scene, persons in the area accused the driver of Narine’s vehicle of speeding while others said that he had fallen asleep.
The wife of one of the car owners had related that he had just parked his car and gone over to the seawall when the accident occurred.
“My husband was parked here because he went over the seawall to pass urine…..and he say all what he heard was “bram”. When he look back he didn’t see the car,” the woman had said.
The M&CC had said that an investigation has since been launched into the accident and a report will be presented at a later date.
