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Apr 25, 2015 News
The 75-year-old woman whose right leg was crushed by a truck on the Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road last Monday, has succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Ramdai Dookdat, of Herstelling, EBD, died Tuesday morning. The mother of one passed away after undergoing surgery to amputate her leg at the medical institution.
According to reports at around 13:45 hrs., the woman was crossing the road in the vicinity of the Providence Police Station when the truck which was heading north on the East Bank Demerara Public Road, struck her down then drove over her leg.
She was first rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre before being transferred to the GPHC.
Relating what transpired at the time of the accident, an eyewitness had told this newspaper that a vehicle had stopped to allow another vehicle and the woman to cross the road.
“A truck stopped to allow the NDC (Neighbourhood Democratic Council) vehicle to pass across the road. There was a bus at the back of that truck and then another truck (the one that was involved in the accident).
“After the NDC vehicle passed, the woman crossed but the truck at the back, like the driver didn’t want to wait, and he overtake and drive in front and hit the woman,” the eyewitness said.
He added, “The truck side barely hit her but because she is old, she fell in front of the truck and the truck front wheel run over her foot. The driver didn’t know he hit her. We had to shout and tell him to stop.”
When contacted, ranks at the Providence Police Station could not say whether the driver was in police custody.
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