A 73-year-old pedestrian died yesterday morning after she was reportedly struck down by a car while crossing the Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road.
Dead is Miriam Johnson of Lot 8 Eastville, Housing Scheme, ECD.
Johnson, who suffered injuries about her body including to her head, was picked up in an unconscious state and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
The accident occurred around 6am.
The police, in a press release, confirmed that the driver, a 22-year-old fisherman of Unity, ECD, was arrested and is assisting with the investigation.
Enquiries, the police said, revealed that the fisherman, who was driving PRR 6925, was proceeding east along the northern carriageway of the Public road when the driver alleged that he observed Johnson standing in the centre of the road.
“As he [the driver] approached, the pedestrian [Johnson] ran north across the road into his path,” the police said.
As a result, Johnson was hit.
An eyewitness, who wished not to be named, told Sunday Stabroek yesterday that the accident was the most “horrific” thing she has ever witnessed.
The eyewitness explained that she was driving, heading west along the southern lane of the public road, when she was alerted about accident by shouts from her mother, who was seated in the front passenger seat of her car.
“I was driving, my mom was in the front seat….this woman [Johnson], she ran across our lane and she was standing at the middle (of the road). I think she was expecting that she could have made it before this blue Spacio approached her but she ran into this Spacio and she was hit by the bumper,” the eyewitness recalled.
“She (Johnson) went onto the windscreen and then she went up into the air, like way high, very high and then she was like flung across all the way to where she landed,” the witness added.
