A MAN and woman were the only passengers of a car that skid off the West Coast Demerara road, at Crane, and slammed into a nearby fence on Saturday morning.

Fortunately, no one was injured, and the car, PRR 8017, was not damaged in a major way.
This is the second non-fatal accident in two weeks that resulted from speeding.
The Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Traffic Department has recorded 103 accidents with 112 deaths, with 10 being children for 2013.
The Department’s statistics, as at May this year, indicated that some 54 have been killed, seven of whom were children, because of road accidents and a number of persons have been seriously injured, although it is only mid-year. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorists remain the most vulnerable victims to fatalities and road accidents.
Speeding continues to be a major contributory factor to fatal accidents, despite police traffic enforcement activities during 2013 resulting in more than 107,650 cases being made against errant motorists. Of that amount, more than 20,443 were for speeding.