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Feb 02, 2011 News
– struck by speeding car
Forty-five-year old Alwyn Andrew Hanover, a landscaper from the village of Victoria on the East Coast of Demerara, was yesterday morning added to the country’s list of road fatalities.
Hanover, the father of two, was struck down by a speeding car as he attempted to cross the Goedverwagting Public Road around 8:20 hours.
The man’s relatives are not too satisfied with the way he was treated, claiming that he was left to lie for close to half an hour on the road even though he was still alive. In fact, many persons at the scene had believed that Hanover died on the spot, but it was not until he arrived at the Georgetown Hospital that he succumbed.
“If you see how they fling he in de vehicle although he was not dead,” an eyewitness told this newspaper.
Police in a statement said that their investigations revealed that the driver of motor car PMM 3202 was allegedly proceeding at a fast rate along the roadway, when it was claimed that pedestrians Alwyn Hanover and seven-year-old Michelle Joseph attempted to cross the road.
The vehicle struck them both down.
The police statement said that the injured persons were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where Hanover was pronounced dead on arrival. Michelle Joseph was admitted to the facility.
But when this newspaper arrived on the scene, police ranks there said that Hanover was not dead, and it was only until later yesterday afternoon that they were able to confirm that he had succumbed.
The scene of the accident was awash with blood while the car ended up crashing into a parked vehicle before they both landed in a ditch.
The driver of the car reportedly claimed that Hanover was in the middle of the road, on the median, and had attempted to cross.
The driver alleged that he swerved but could not avoid hitting the man before colliding into the child who was standing on the southern side of the road.
The elder of Hanover’s two daughters, Abiola ,told this newspaper that her father left home early yesterday morning for work.
“He left our school money and mango for us to make our drink,” she said.
The teenager said that she was at school when a teacher informed her that her father had been involved in an accident.
“I say it was a lie, so I say I going to see if it is true. While we going one of my cousins call my teacher and told her that my father was dead and he was already in the mortuary,” Abiola Hanover told Kaieteur News.
According to another relative, Hanover had already reported to his place of work at Goedverwagting, and had left to drop some milk at another location.
He was returning to work when the tragedy occurred.
“De man actually bleed-out on the road and the man that was driving was doing it (driving rapidly). Nowadays nobody don’t want render assistance when they see blood. Nobody ain’t want blood in dey car. But is a life and I can’t see why people must put blood in dey car ahead of a life,” the relative said.
The driver of the motor car is in police custody assisting with the investigations.
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