FORTY–FIVE–YEAR-OLD, Carol Overton of Mocha, East Bank Demerara was on Friday evening struck and killed by a male-driven Toyota Runx on the Mocha Access Road, EBD.

A senior officer attached to the Police ‘A’ Division told the Chronicle that investigations revealed that Overton was crossing the access road when a vehicle was passing, and after that vehicle had passed, Overton attempted to cross the road and was struck down by another vehicle.

The officer said that after Overton had been struck, the driver of the vehicle, realising he had hit something which he had not seen because his lights had been dim and street lights are absent in that area, turned around and revisited the path he had travelled to determine what it was he had struck when he saw the woman lying on the road.

The driver then took the woman to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

The driver is in police custody assisting with investigations.

(Asif Hakim)