TRAFFIC ranks at Brickdam Police Station are moving to file a causing death by dangerous driving charge against a CCS Guyana Limited driver who was involved in a fatal accident last week Thursday.

The victim, a father of five named Carl Soso, known as ‘Blackie’, was struck by a speeding vehicle on Regent Street, Georgetown, and succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday morning in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation(GPHC).
One of the eyewitnesses to the occurrence said the ill-fated cargo minibus, GRR 1667, was heading west along Regent Street when the fatality occurred at Regent and Albert Streets.
A woman said that Soso and a friend were sitting on a stand at the corner when they saw the minibus approaching at a fast rate and out of control.
She said another minibus had stopped at the junction to give way to a car that wanted to cross Regent Street, but the speeding CCS bus attempted to pass a passenger bus from behind.
In the attempt, that driver realised that the other bus had stopped to give way to another vehicle and, to avoid slamming into the car, the man at the wheel of the CCS bus tried to take evasive action, but ended up crashing into the pavement where the now dead man and his friend were sitting.
Tried to run
The Guyana Chronicle was informed that, as the two men on the pavement saw the bus coming, one rolled under a table, while Soso got up and tried to run, but the bus had already breached the pavement and struck him unconscious.
Soso was picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) by persons who work at a nearby mechanic shop. He remained a patient there until the time he died on Tuesday morning.
Family members of the deceased said that the Police arrived at the scene and took the errant driver into custody, but he was released subsequently.
Police said as soon as the post mortem examination is performed and the results confirm the man died from injuries he suffered in the accident, the errant driver will be charged.
Meanwhile, also on Thursday, Shameer Hussain, one of the Directors of CCS told this newspaper that the company has already launched an internal investigation into the matter.
The director said, while not admitting liability, in the absence of the driver being prosecuted, the company has committed to assisting the family with some funeral expenses and any other interim assistance that will ease their financial burden at this point.
He expressed the sympathy of the company to the relatives of the dead man and said the managers did meet with them.

(By Leroy Smith)