A file is being prepared for the office of Director of Public Prosecutions for advice on the accident that claimed the life of Mark Ault at Dora Linden-Soesdyke Highway on Sunday night.
Acting Commander of Region Four (b) Senior Superintendent Mahendra Siwnarine yesterday told Stabroek News that the driver remains in custody while the police await the post-mortem result to complete the case file.
Ault, a minibus driver, died in an accident involving three vehicles at Dora on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway. Three other persons were injured.
The police, in a statement, said Ault was proceeding north along the western side of the Dora Public Road, Linden-Soesdyke Highway in minibus # PKK 3866. At the same time hire car HC 9662, driven by Lindon Lamaizon, 51, of Brusche Dam, Friendship Village, East Coast Demerara was proceeding in the opposite direction and ended up in the path of the minibus. The right side of the hire car collided with the rear wheel of the minibus, causing the driver of the minibus to lose control.
As a result, the right front of the minibus collided with the right side of a car, PLL 3468, which was proceeding south along the eastern carriageway of the road behind the hire car.
As a result of the collision, the driver of the minibus and the occupants of PLL 3486 suffered injuries about their bodies.
Ault was picked up in an unconscious condition and taken to the Mackenzie Public Hospital, where he was seen and examined by a doctor on duty and pronounced dead on arrival.
The driver of PLL 3468, Julian Elliot, 61, of Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden and occupants Akeemo Elliot and Candace Gordon were picked up in a conscious condition by public spirited-citizens and the police and taken to the Mackenzie Public Hospital where they were seen and examined by a doctor on duty. The occupants of the car were kept at the institution for observation.
Elliot was then referred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where he was seen and examined by a doctor on duty and admitted in the male surgical ward suffering from a fractured pelvis and spine.
Ault transported newspapers from Georgetown to Linden on a daily basis.
