The taxi driver involved in the accident that claimed the life of bus driver Mark Ault on Sunday night at Dora Public Road, Linden-Soesdyke Highway, was on Wednesday charged with causing death by dangerous driving and released on $620,000 bail.
Lindon Lamaizon, 51, of Brusche Dam, Friend-ship Village, East Coast Demerara, appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Providence Magis-trate’s Court, where it was alleged that on June 6, 2021, he drove hire car HC 9662 in a manner dangerous to the public, thereby causing the death of Ault.
He was also charged with failure to render assistance.
He pleaded not guilty to both charges. He was granted $600,000 bail on the causing death charge and $20,000 bail on the failure to assist charge.
He is to make his next appearance in court on June 30, 2021.
Ault 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 Lamaizon, was proceeding in the opposite direction and ended up in the path of the minibus. The right side of the hire car collided with a 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 to the male surgical ward suffering from a fractured pelvis and spine.
Ault transported newspapers from Georgetown to Linden on a daily basis.
Meanwhile a post-mortem examination conducted on the deceased revealed his cause of death as a fractured skull and fractured spine.
