A Phagwah day road accident has left a three-year-old boy dead and his family in mourning.
Yesterday, the cries of residents of 49 Front Road, East Ruimveldt were loud for the dead child Carlyle Nashmoe.
Residents say that some time before midday a vehicle, which was being driven by a man who is closely connected to a city bakery was speeding along the road in a bid to overtake another silver-coloured vehicle. Immediate-ly as he succeeded in doing so, he hit the toddler who was standing on the roadside waiting to cross to participate in Phagwah festivities with his friends.
The body of the child was subsequently pitched many feet into a corner further up the road causing his head to make solid contact with a piece of wood. Family members said the doctors told them that was the direct cause of his demise.
The boy’s grandmother, Mary Roach, said that the driver of the vehicle drove away into the next corner, but was pursued by a public-minded citizen who witnessed the accident. Meanwhile, the driver of the vehicle which was overtaken by the motorist who hit the child, picked up the boy and took him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The boy’s inconsolable mother and aunt were both angry at the way the police handled the matter once they arrived on the scene. They said the officers did not handcuff the man and they seemed hesitant to put him in the patrol vehicle. They also said that the same individual turned up at the hospital in his father’s vehicle when he should have been in police custody.
Pandemonium broke out at the institution and police ranks, who were there, were forced to place the man in the patrol vehicle. Irate relatives pounded on the car as it drove away and the man was observed covering his face as he sat in the back of the car between two policemen.
When Stabroek News arrived at the scene, attorney Gordon Gilhuys was present with armed police ranks marking off and measuring the scene of the accident.
