Police investigate a fatal road traffic accident on Wednesday afternoon in Haslington, East Coast Demerara (ECD), in which 54-year-old Shawn Gittens of Golden Grove is reported to have been killed. According to police statements cited by both outlets, Gittens was struck by a motor lorry while the vehicle was reversing along the Haslington Railway Embankment Road. One report says the lorry is registered to China Railway Construction and was driven while engaged in paving works. Both sources identify the victim as Gittens and place the incident along the same roadway in ECD. The lorry’s reversing motion is described as the factor leading to the pedestrian being hit. Police are treating the incident as an accident and continue inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the collision, including details about the work being carried out at the site and how the pedestrian came to be in the path of the vehicle.