TWO die in three-vehicle smash-up including Henry Greene and a 10-year-old.

Many people were shocked on Friday after it was confirmed that former Commissioner of Police Henry Greene and a 10-year-old child, Shaffiya Jamaluddin, were killed in a three-vehicle collision on Harlem Public Road, West Coast Demerara (WCD).

After spending a glorious month in Guyana visiting friends and family I planned on writing about something I witnessed with my very own eyes.
It is not shocking at all to know why these accidents occur so frequently where lives are lost and property destroyed.
I urge the authorities to take a serious look at the Lamaha and Middleton Streets intersection where in the past month three serious accidents had occurred.
Death and destruction are waiting to happen at the intersection at Middleton Street and Campbell Avenue.
All over the Georgetown area I witnessed the many stop sign markings on the roads where the paint is faded.
I witnessed speed humps on the roads which are great things to slow drivers down but some are not marked so drivers who are not familiar with those speed humps damage their vehicles.
I urge those in authority to place stop signs on poles where they can be clearly in the face of motorists so they will know stop means stop.
I saw an elderly lady who grabbed a child at the Middleton and Lamaha Streets intersection and fling the child in the grass saving the child’s life from a speeding driver zooming from Lamaha Street on to Dennis Street.
That driver like many other drivers must have thought she/he had the right of way because the painted stop sign on Lamaha Street heading on to Middleton Street is faded.
Same thing goes on at the intersection at Middleton Street and Campbell Avenue where total disaster is waiting to happen, especially for schoolchildren who may be crossing.
Stop signs on poles will go a long way toward saving lives and preventing damaga to property, not those faded stop sign markings on roads.