Sleeping woman crushed by cars
Stabroek News-August 22nd 2005
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The Police towing away one of the vehicles which smashed into Essential Shopping Centre yesterday morning killing an elderly woman. Â
A woman sleeping on the pavement was yesterday morning killed when two cars, both reportedly failing to stop at the critical intersection on Regent and Camp streets, collided and slammed into the pillars of Essential Shopping Centre at the corner.
Dead is 63-year-old, Petal Blair of Charlotte Street, Lacytown.
The woman, according to reports, had made her bed under the store on the Regent Street pavement when the vehicles crashed into her. Both of …
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New city traffic lights needed -Harlequin
Stabroek News-May 27th 2005
Although the police traffic department was successful in fixing one set of traffic lights in the city recently, there are calls for them to be scrapped altogether.
“There is need for new lights in the city, modern lights,” Traffic Chief Michael Harlequin told Stabroek News when contacted on Monday.
According to Harlequin, the current set of lights at several city intersections have been in existence for several decades and have outlived their usefulness.
Many of the city traffic signals have for months been non-functional.
According to the traffic chief, police from the traffic department are responsible for enforcing the …
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