Hit and run accident victim, Allan Downes remains in a critical but stable condition three weeks after he was struck down by a SUV at Turkeyen, Rupert Craig Highway, according to his wife Marysia Bento Downes, in a recent Facebook post.
Stabroek News had earlier reported that police investigation on the accident revealed that a man by the name of Heeralall was driving the SUV and was proceeding east along on the northern lane of the Rupert Craig Highway. In the vicinity of Turkeyen, Heeralall claimed that Downes, 51 year-old of Oleander Gardens, East Coast Demerara, ran from the southern lane across to the northern lane and into his path.
Heeralall claimed, according to the police report, that he swerved to avoid a collision but despite his effort, the front part of the vehicle collided with Downes who sustained injuries about his body. The police further stated that Downes was picked up in a semi-conscious state and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit in a critical condition.
Meanwhile Downes’ wife, also in a Facebook post immediately after the accident, had said that her husband’s daily exercise routine for the past 20 years measured the distance from Oleander Gardens to Conversation Tree Road and back. Marysia explained that her husband was acutely aware of reckless drivers on the roadways and would never had walked into the path of one.
