Two drainage and irrigation workers died in an accident on the Mahaicony Public Road yesterday afternoon after a truck hit a cow and slammed into the pickup in which they were travelling.
Dead are the driver of the pickup identified as “Ray” of Enmore, East Coast Demerara and Mohamo “Manu” Haimnauth, age 27, of Little Baiboo, Mahaica Creek. The third occupant of the vehicle, Omesh Puran Haimnauth, was admitted and is in the intensive care unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, after being transferred from the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital ,where he was treated for head injuries and several lacerations about his body. His condition up to press time last evening was listed as stable.
There was no reported injury to the driver of the truck which collided with the pickup that the men were travelling in.
The accident occurred at the Embankment turn on the Mahaicony Public Road, East Coast Demerara. The men who are employed by a private sub contractor of the Ministry of Agriculture were returning home after a day’s job of repairing a road at Mahaicony that had been affected by the recent flood.
Omesh Puran Haimnauth, the lone survivor in the pickup told Stabroek News, at the GPHC just before taking an Xray and going for a CT Scan at a private city hospital, the events as he remembered them leading up to the accident.
The seventeen year old who still was visibly traumatized said with tears in his eyes “We normally work with a man call ‘Star’ who is doing work for NDIA on the Hope Canal. Today though we ain’t work there cause we had to go pick up some of ministry of agriculture equipment to do some capping work pun de Mahaicony road because of the flood and so. We done wuk there and we de coming back when all I see was a cow and a truck. Next thing I know like de man go fuh swerve from de cow but he hit de cow and slam into we and we pitch in de drain me din know nothing else till people come for help we.”
The cousin of the dead Manu added that he awoke to find a rescue team of villagers from the area of the accident trying to get the door of the vehicle opened. However he said that because of its mangled state it was a difficult task in trying to get anyone out. He said when he looked to his side of the three- seater vehicle, he knew that the driver was dead and thought too that his cousin was dead. However he said when he reached out he felt him breathing. “When me look to me side me done know Ray dead long time and it look like Manu been dead to but me reach over and touch am and me feel he breathing.”
Several family members turned up at the GPHC last evening and were comforting each other. They said that the two dead men were at the Mahaicony Hospital Mortuary. Mohano who was married last year leaves to mourn his wife Sharda Sugrim and a four-month-old baby girl named Theresa.
