THE driver who crashed into a businessman’s parked vehicle on the La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara (WCD) public road on New Year’s Day will be charged.

The traffic rank who visited the scene, on the other hand, is to be disciplined for neglect of duty after failing to administer a breathalyser test along with other standard operating procedures.

This was disclosed by the Guyana Police Force Press Officer Superintendent Jairam Ramlakhan in response to an article published in Wednesday’s edition of the Guyana Chronicle under the caption, “Businessman knocks police probe into crash.”

Ramlakhan noted that the driver of the vehicle that caused the accident has been charged with dangerous driving, and that the case is been fixed for hearing at the Leonora Magistrates’ Court next Tuesday.

He said, too, that the subordinate traffic cop who visited the scene indeed neglected to administer a breathalyser test on the driver of the vehicle that caused the accident; and that he will be disciplined for the neglect and has no further role to play in the investigation.

The Mahaicony businessman, Navindra Singh, who owns a lumber yard and hardware store at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, had called on the Guyana Police Force to conduct a thorough investigation into a crash that wrecked his Toyota Rav 4 vehicle, PVV 1109, which was parked on the parapet in front of Lot 17 La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on New Year’s Day.

He said that his vehicle was completely off the roadway when a Suzuki vehicle, PTT 9200, crashed into his, moving it several feet away and squeezing it between a fence and utility pole.

He noted that the driver, who identified herself as Candice Canzius, claimed that she had fallen asleep at the wheel when the accident occurred.

Singh, however, said that the police corporal who visited the scene did not conduct a proper investigation. “He operated like he was not even a police; not even a breathalyzer test was done, and this was on New Year’s Day, when many persons are driving under the influence,” the businessman said.

He had questioned the poor police work that results in citizens having to face the royal run around in order to have things properly done in a systematic manner.