Four police injured after vehicle crashes into parked container

FOUR Police Constables who work on special projects and assignments within the Guyana Police Force were early yesterday morning rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after the vehicle in which they were travelling slammed into a parked container on the Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara.

The Guyana Chronicle was reliably informed that the officers were travelling along the Friendship Public Road when they came into contact with the parked container.
Sources close to the men recalled that they had worked throughout the night on Saturday and into Sunday morning. At time of the accident, they were heading on yet another assignment when the accident occurred.

Information reaching the Guyana Chronicle is that the container was parked with no proper lighting on the shoulder of the road, causing the unmarked police car to slam into it. However despite the container being poorly lit, the Guyana Police Force is carrying out routine and mandatory checks on its own vehicle to see if it had had any fault that could have caused the accident.

When the Guyana Chronicle visited the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday morning, the police ranks were being treated for their injures, but were all alert and responding and were communicating with officers.

They received stitches to various parts of their bodies, mostly their faces, for the lacerations they sustained in the accident. There was, however, one of the four ranks who appeared to be a bit more injured that his colleagues, and he was being prepared to have several additional tests and scans run on him to determine the extent of his injuries.

Relatives of the injured police ranks were informed, and they were at the hospital awaiting word on the condition of the men. The fathers, wives, and other relatives of the injured were among those who visited the hospital.

The Guyana Police Force has long been calling on business operators and container owners to be more responsible in the way they park container trucks and utilise the roadways.
The Guyana Police Force has been calling for business operators to ensure that containers spend very little time parked on road shoulders whenever it is necessary, and in event of this happening, containers should be properly lit so that motorists and other road users of the night can be aware of their presence.

This admonition is, however, apparently not being taken seriously by owners of containers and container trucks. In many cases, one could see container trucks exceeding speed limits and travelling above 85 miles per hour along the East Bank Demerara Public Road and the East Coast Demerara Public Road. However there are numbers listed on those vehicles that persons can call to report these breaches to the owners of the container trucks. Regrettably, police ranks are not often on the road to catch these irresponsible drivers, so the practice continues.

The accident involving the four police officers came just hours before the Guyana Police Force Annual Wreath Laying Ceremony for ranks who died in the line of the duty.

The four Constables, Durwin Eastman, Anthony Branch, Aaron Seegobin and William Jeffers all received injuries and have been admitted to hospital.

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