A Russian national was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre last evening following a motorcycle accident on the Farm Public Road on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD).
Dead is 51-year-old Oleg Veidnar, who lived at Lot 1090, Sixteenth Street, Back Half, Diamond Housing Scheme, EBD. According to reports, Veidnar was riding his motorcycle, a CBR bearing registration CF 2823, along the public road when he lost control of the bike while in the vicinity of the Farm Masjid. Persons at the masjid told Stabroek News that they were praying when they heard a loud screeching sound on the nearby public road, sometime around 5:45 pm yesterday. Veidnar purchased the bike about two months ago.
A resident in the area related that the road was wet at the time as it had been raining earlier in the afternoon and he noted that the Russian may have under-estimated “the turn on the road near the masjid”. The man said that he was praying at the time at the masjid and when he inquired what had happened, he observed Veidnar, who was wearing a helmet, lying at the side of the road while his motorbike lay some 40 yards away, close to a bridge.
He was rushed to the Diamond Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival, sources there confirmed. Veidnar sustained mainly head injuries, the sources said.
At the scene Veidnar’s wife, Monica Veidnar called ‘Coco’, was overcome with emotion, and she told Stabroek News that her husband was the sole-breadwinner of the family. She said that he had left home for the city around 5:30 pm yesterday to uplift a gold chain. The grieving woman said that they were married for five years now and have been together for more than seven years. She said that her husband travelled regularly to his home country, Russia.
At Veidnar’s home in the Diamond New Scheme, his three foster daughters wept uncontrollably as news of his death spread throughout the community. It was noted
that Veidnar was a professional engineer who worked overseas most of the time. He would travel regularly to these shores to spend time with his family and relatives stated that he was expected to travel to Europe today.
His body was taken to the Diamond Hospital mortuary and he is expected to be buried within the next few days. He is survived by his wife and three foster children as well as a daughter
from a previous union.
