Police Corporal Alden Reynolds yesterday afternoon succumbed to injuries sustained in an accident along the East Bank Berbice Public Road on Thursday.
Reynolds, 40, of Sandvoort Village, West Canje Berbice; and Police Sergeant, Javon Thomas, 37, of Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme, were at Heathburn when they were struck.
The men were rushed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital and then later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital. Stabroek News was told that Reynolds, who sustained massive head injuries, succumbed just around 4 pm.
Commander of Region Six, Shivpersaud Bacchus yesterday confirmed Reynolds’ passing.
Reynolds was based at the Whim Police Station attached to the Criminal Investigation Department.
Meanwhile, the Commander further noted that Thomas is responding to treatment and they are hopeful that he will make a full recovery.
The driver of the speeding car remained in police custody as of yesterday afternoon.
On Thursday, the men and several other ranks were on their way further up the East Bank Berbice area for a domino competition when they stopped at Thomas’s in-laws’ residence at Heathburn.
Stabroek News was told that after the men exited the yard, motor car, HD 2816, which was driven by Troy Henry, 50, of First Street, Edinburgh Village, EBB went out of control and ran into Thomas’s wife, Dr Karen Thomas’s vehicle, PAC 4187, which was parked on the parapet and then the policemen.
Thomas’s foot was caught under Henry’s car while Reynolds was pitched some distance away and fell unconscious.
Henry was arrested at the scene of the accident and taken to the Central Police Station in New Amsterdam where a breath alcohol test was conducted on him and readings of 48 and 51 microgrammes were registered.
