Relatives of a 44-year-old West Berbice man who lost his life when a truck ran over him around 6 pm on Sunday at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara travelled to the city yesterday to identify his remains.
Reports are that Seekumar called ‘Ronald’ of Bath Settlement had just exited the front seat of the truck – which brought him out of the “sea dam” – and was walking about 15 feet away from the corner when the tray of the truck struck him.
His son-in-law, Ravi Narinedat, told this newspaper he learnt that even though the truck ran over Seekumar the driver apparently did not realise and kept on driving.
He learnt too that the driver of a car that was right behind the truck stopped and “lifted his [the injured man] head and realised that he was badly hurt.” He then shouted to a security guard and other persons around that they were “right here and didn’t see that the man got hit down.”
They immediately inform-ed the police who arrived at the scene within minutes and rushed the injured man to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The car driver, in the meantime, had followed the truck that was heading to De Hoop, Mahaica and brought the driver – who claimed that he was not aware that he ran over the man – back to the scene.
Narinedat said Seekumar had only started working with the company, which was contracted to undergo the sea defence project, on Tuesday and that the truck belonged to the company. The man was heading to await transportation to travel home to Bath Settlement.
He said another worker from Bath Settlement who was at the project site, telephoned the man’s wife, Mohanie, and informed her that he had been involved in an accident.
Shortly after Seekumar’s lifeless body arrived at the hospital, officials there requested the wife’s telephone number and broke the news of her husband’s death to her.
He has left to mourn his wife, two children and a grandson.
