A driver is now hospitalised after the car he was driving slammed into a cow – killing it on the spot before bulldozing a gas bottle cage at Lot 48 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam.
The crashed car at Stanleytown, New Amsterdam
Full and empty gas bottles were sent pitching about 50 feet away from the crash are the cage got the impact. In the process, two signs were uprooted.
According to the police, the driver, Richard David 39, of Lot 50 Stanleytown New Amsterdam Berbice, suffered a fractured left leg and is now a patient at New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
The police in a release said at about 0:15h on Friday, David was driving a hire car HC 2974 Road allegedly at a fast speed when the front right-side portion of the said vehicle collided with a brown cow that was standing in the center of the road.
The driver then lost control of his vehicle and collided with two gas cages that were on a property on the eastern side of the road. The vehicle ended up in a trench on the eastern side of the road. As a result of the collisions, the driver received injuries on his body.
Eusie Smith, a supermarket owner said he was asleep and awoken by the sound of the impact.
“When I came out I saw the car in the trench and the bottles scattered all over. The cage is destroyed and I did not recover all of the bottles,” Smith said.
Smith estimates the cost of the two gas bottles cages which were destroyed at $400,000.
Meanwhile, the police said the driver’s condition is regarded as stable. (G4)
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