EDWARD Ashby, a 71-year-old man of 53 Third Street, Industry, East Coast Demerara is the country’s latest road fatality when he was killed on the Ogle Public Road last Saturday.

The man was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) around 20:15 hrs, minutes after his body was picked up.
One of the traffic ranks who spoke with this newspaper yesterday morning via telephone related that the circumstances surrounding the accident are not too clear.
According to an eyewitness, Ashby was struck by two cars; when Ashby was attempting to cross the southern carriageway of the road, opposite the Shell Gas Station at Ogle, when he was struck first by a speeding blue Toyota 212 Carina. Just after Ashby fell on the road, another speeding car ran over him and sped away just as the first had done.
The police have described the situation as a conflicting circumstance, and have taken a driver into custody, believing that the man (name not given) allegedly committed the act.
The driver who was taken into custody is holding onto his innocence and is claiming that he is not responsible for the accident.
He claimed that after he saw a car hit Ashby, he followed that car with the aim of getting the driver to stop, but was unsuccessful as stated that the vehicle sped away from him.
The police became doubtful when he could not give the licence number of the vehicle he had chased after.
Investigators also observed that there was some damage to the man’s car indicating that it may have run over an object.
Traffic ranks are nevertheless trying to locate the blue car that first struck the pensioner.
Persons related the news to the man’s family who turned up at the GPHC only to have their worst fears confirmed.
In an interview via telephone with the dead man’s daughter yesterday, she related that they are awaiting relatives from abroad to come in for the funeral and thus far the police have not updated them on anything relating to the demise of Ashby, she noted however that she was informed that the driver is still in police custody.