THREE days after Sangodele Mentore allegedly struck down an unidentified elderly man with his motorcar on the Railway Embankment at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, and drove away, he has turned himself over to the police.

According to a police release, Mentore, 50, of Kaieteur Road, Bel Air Park, Georgetown, on Monday, turned himself in at the Turkeyen Police Station. Mentore was arrested and placed into custody pending charges for failure to render assistance, failure to report an accident and failing to stop after an accident.

The investigation into the serious accident is still ongoing.
The Guyana Chronicle had reported that in the wee hours of August 6, the pedestrian was seriously injured after he was struck down by a vehicle. The driver fled the scene leaving licence plate, PZZ 1276, behind. The police later recovered it from the accident scene.

Reports disclosed that it appears that the pedestrian, who is about 60 years old, was walking along the southern side of the Railway Embankment when he was struck by a motor vehicle that was proceeding in an unknown direction.

As a result of the collision, the pedestrian fell onto the road surface and received injuries to his body. He was then picked up by Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) personnel in an unconscious condition and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where he was seen and examined by a doctor on duty and later admitted a patient in the Accident and Emergency Unit Critical Bay suffering from broken legs and lacerations to his head and about his body.