A hire car driver has since been placed into police custody after he allegedly ran over a vagrant with his motor car on the New Amsterdam Public Road.
According to information gathered, around 11 pm on Wednesday, the driver of motor car, HC 6742, was proceeding along the Main Road in New Amsterdam, when he allegedly ran over something.
Stabroek News was told that the driver then stopped his car and exited to see what he had hit and it was then that he discovered the vagrant underneath his car.