A 16-year-old Zeeburg Secondary School student is in police custody after he struck down a young mother at Red Spot Street, West Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara Wednesday afternoon.This newspaper understands that the unlicensed teen driver stole his father’s canter truck and was observed speeding through the narrow street towards the main road, when he collided with the young woman who was walking out of the street with her mother.

“The young mother turned around when she heard the speeding canter, the canter then hit her in the face and the canter truck mirror break off and fall on the ground,” one eyewitness said.

The mother and daughter reportedly live in back street Meten-Meer-Zorg, WCD. Another resident said that the young lady recently gave birth two months ago.

“She mouth and face buss up,” another eyewitness told this newspaper.