FOUR motor cars were badly wrecked on Wednesday outside the Mon Repos Market on the East Coast of Demerara when a lorry, allegedly attempting to overtake a motor car, ended up in the path of another car heading in the opposite direction.Eyewitnesses said that as the lorry moved from behind the vehicle it was overtaking, it ended up in the path of a car being driven by Odinga Duncan, who was at the time transporting a female. In order to avoid a head-on collision with the oncoming lorry, Duncan apparently took evasive action by swerving to the left.

With the area being congested, Duncan’s car crashed into three stationary motor vehicles on a ‘No Stopping’ lane outside the market. Miraculously, he and the woman passenger emerged from the ordeal unhurt.

The police, when summoned, turned up and conducted investigations.
Some vendors in the market were adamant that the police have long been turning a blind eye to cars parking on the sign.

“Now that this big accident happen, we hope they do something soon, because people could have been killed here today,” one concerned vendor said.

And coming on the heels of this accident, the police have heightened their surveillance and distribution of tickets to drivers of Route Number 48 minibuses found parking on the ‘No Stopping” sign painted north-east of St Andrew’s Kirk and behind the designated bus park outside Demico House.