The public’s help is urgently being sought to locate the driver of a vehicle that drove over a police officer as he lay on the highway after he was involved in an accident, killing him instantly.
The freak accident took place around 3 am Saturday on the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway in the vicinity of the Courts Megastore, El Socorro.
PC Leon Ramsey, a motorcyclist who works with the Traffic and Highway Patrol Branch, was returning to base in Aranguez after completing patrol duty on Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook, when the accident occurred.
Ramsey was on the eastbound lane of the highway in the company of motorcyclist 9822 PC Clark, when a pedestrian attempting to cross the highway came into his path.
It is reported that Ramsey swerved in an attempt to avoid the pedestrian, picked up a skid and fell off his motorcycle which collided with the unidentified man.
As Ramsey lay unconscious, he was run over by an oncoming vehicle. The person in the car did not stop.
Police are searching for person driving the silver motorcar that failed to stop after the incident. Both Ramsey and the pedestrian died at the scene.
Ramsey, of Lange Park, Chaguanas, had approximately four years service.
Anyone with information on the vehicle involved in the accident can call 800- TIPS or contact the police at 555, 999, 911 or at any police station, text/WhatsApp 482-GARY(4279) or share information via the TTPS App.