Just after 05:00 hrs yesterday, the quiet of an early Sunday morning at Mc Doom Public Road, East Bank Demerara was shattered by the foreboding sound of a vehicle spinning out of control.
It was a white Toyota Allion that crashed just past the Shell Gas Station along the eastern carriageway. A youth, who was pointed out as the driver, wasted little time in fleeing the scene after the car came to a stop across the roadway, blocking the north to east flow of traffic.  However, there appeared to be no casualties at the scene.
The driver, who was annoyed at persons taking pictures with their cell phones, was verbally abusive.
Eyewitnesses said the driver who looked as if he and his friends in the vehicle had been partying “all nite long” was ‘flying’ when he lost control of the car on the straightway.  A traffic department source said the car was travelling at about 100 mph. The licence plate number was given as PNN 8969.
The car uprooted the huge Shell V-Power signage from its concrete moorings, slammed into a set of heavy duty concrete drain covers that also serve as a pedestrian walkway and barely veered off from entering a nearby yard before spinning around. Car parts from the vehicle’s front and rear were ripped off and strewn about as the vehicle ‘slammed’ and ‘banged’ uncontrollably.
Meanwhile, residents who were roused from their beds by the crash expressed strong condemnation of reckless driving as they recalled a similar crash last Sunday night just a few meters south of yesterday’s incident.
That car had uprooted the sidewalk concrete slabs that would usually require a Hymac to set them in place.