Police have detained a motorcyclist who struck and killed an East Coast Demerara resident yesterday as he was crossing the road. The man was hit a stone’s throw from his home.
Dead is Chateram Singh, age 45 years of 26 Vryheids’s Lust Public Road. He was attempting to cross the road to go home when he was struck by the motorcyclist who was reportedly riding with reasonable speed. Reports reaching the family say that Singh was flung into the air upon impact and later crashed to the ground. Singh was immediately rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he died a few hours later.
Doctors at the hospital told relatives Singh suffered massive head injuries as a result of the collision and that he had only a slim chance of surviving. It was around 4 pm when the news broke that Singh had died after hours of fighting to stay alive. The grief on the faces of his relatives was palpable. A few of them wept openly while others spoke of how Singh lived a simple life. They said he had no children, but that he spent much of his life being a good friend to others.
Chateram Singh lived alone at his Vryheid’s Lust home and had been out of a job for a while. Relatives said he previously worked at sea and was enjoying his last few months in Guyana because his papers to the United States recently came through.
“He was to travel in December to join he brothers and sisters, but now they have to come and bury him,” a relative said yesterday. She said Singh’s entire immediate family is overseas and that he was excited about joining them later this year.
