Mohammed Zaheed Abraham, of Lot 218 De Souza Street, Better Hope, East Coast Demerara was in the passenger seat at the time of the accident while his employer, Buddy (only name given) was driving. Buddy, the owner of a Le Ressouvenir, ECD business, could not be located by police up to press time.
According to reports, the driver lost control of the Toyota Allion, PNN 3607, as he attempted to undertake a vehicle after turning from Camp Road onto Carifesta Avenue.
Sources said that the vehicle slammed into the tray of a truck which was at the time reversing from the Georgetown Softball Cricket Ground and subsequently ran into the ditch opposite the Burrowes School of Arts.
An eyewitness told this newspaper that Abraham was breathing but his pulse was lost after about half an hour when firefighters checked before he could be rescued. They were able to peel the mangled metal apart using a special instrument and remove the man’s body.
“They say when he tek the turn, he turn deep and a canter de deh at the corner and he land in the thing,” the dead man’s sister Shakela Khan told Stabroek News last evening at his home.
His wife, Neetu Singh, explained that no one informed her of what had happened to her husband.
“Nobody didn’t come and tell we nothing. We had to go by the hospital when he de done dead about 1 o’ clock and see he done wrap up in plastic,” the distressed woman said while sitting at her husband’s wake.
She said that sometime after midnight, she heard a vehicle pulling up in front of her home and suspecting it was Abraham she hurried out to greet him but found that it was a stranger enquiring about her husband.
“The man ask if a contractor boy name Z Man live here and me say yes and then he say if anybody come to we and tell we anything and me tell he no and I ask he if anything wrong and he say no, is not anything really and then he go away, he ain’t tell me nothing,” she recalled.
She further stated that Khan came over to her house and she told her about the man who visited, speculating that something was amiss. Curious, the two decided to call relatives, friends and then the police.
“We call Sparendaam to find out but they didn’t hear anything and then we call BV and they say yes they had an accident and we say must be he been in the accident but was not he,” Singh explained.
She said she and her sister-in-law then opted to travel to the Georgetown Public Hospital where they found Abraham’s body already prepared to be taken to the morgue.
“He de already die… they tek he too late,” the woman said as she wept. “The man from the fire service say they tek he out dead from the car. They took about half an hour to get him out and by time he reach de hospital he was pronounced dead,” she added.
The widow explained that her husband had been working with the man who was driving the car for about five years and it was not unusual that he went out with him that evening.
“He come for him and tell he that he carrying him to see a next work somewhere else so he go with him. He is always bring him home in the night,” she noted, adding that the police have not been able to find the man.
“He escape after the accident… We just know him as Buddy,” she said.
When Stabroek News visited Buddy’s home at Le Ressouvenir, his family stated that they have heard about the accident but that he had not returned home since.
