Police are investigating an accident that occurred near the junction of Sheriff and David streets, where an elderly woman suffered minor injuries on Saturday night.
Traffic Chief Linden Isles yesterday said that the accident was minor and no one was badly injured despite reports on the night of the accident.
Isles explained that after the accident, which occurred around 7.30 pm, the elderly woman, who was in a car that was rammed by another, was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital and discharged the same night as she only suffered some minor injuries.
According to eyewitnesses, the car the woman was travelling in was hit by another car that was alleged to have run a stoplight at the intersection.
A video posted to Facebook by Mario Hartman, an eyewitness, showed the driver of a black Mercedes Benz, PTT 1104, lying on the ground with his hands tied by a belt. Persons in the video were heard saying that the driver, who attempted to flee the scene of the accident, was caught by several persons who tied his hands following a beating.
The driver, who appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, can be seen in the video giving different accounts of what transpired in the run-up to the accident following a series of questions from onlookers.
According to an eyewitness, who was walking along the Railway Embankment towards Sheriff Street when the accident took place, the driver, who ran the stop light, was driving with the hood/bonnet of the car up. Another eyewitness claimed that he was riding his motorcycle along the embankment and was almost hit by the same car in the vicinity of Ogle. He, too, noted that the car’s hood was up.
Meanwhile, the driver of a silver Fielder Wagon, bearing licence plate PTT 9414, said that the driver of the Mercedes Benz ran the stoplight before hitting his car. The visibly distraught man said that the elderly woman was his grandmother and she was seated in the backseat of his vehicle with a cousin and a child.
When this newspaper visited the scene of the accident, the Fielder Wagon was being towed away, while its driver left in another car with the police. Persons were discussing the accident. Food vendor Andrew Francis said he was at his home in Duncan Street when he heard the impact from the collision and rushed out. “Another car carry the injured people to the hospital. If he know he [hood] up in the air, you supposed to stop and close down back you [hood]. He driving coming through all the time,” he said.
The driver of the Mercedes has since been detained.
