A family of Canefield Settlement, East Canje Berbice is now grieving the death of their loved one, Glen McLeod, who succumbed at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital yesterday morning after he was struck by a drunk driver along the Canje Bridge on Monday evening.
McLeod, 61, a security guard attached to the New Amsterdam Technical Institute and of Lot 913 New Area Canefield Settlement, East Canje Berbice, was pushing his bicycle over the Canje Bridge heading to work located less than a minute from the bridge, when he was struck by the speeding car which was being driven by a drunk driver.
It is reported that the driver, 25, of Lot 67 Belmont, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara was driving motor car PWW 511 at the time of the accident with a passenger of Lot 60 Archer Street, Number 2 Village, East Canje, Berbice.