A 54-year-old joiner of Good Faith, Mahaicony lost his life and two other men sustained injuries after the vehicle he was driving slammed into a parked truck, GJJ 4906, around 10 pm on Monday at Novar.
Chaitram ‘Moses’ Singh succumbed to his injuries while receiving treatment at the Mahaicony Hospital. He was at the time driving a green Honda CRV, PKK 9600, belonging to his son.
The other occupants of the vehicle: Narine Datt Bissoon, 57, of Novar and Brijnandan Gopaul, 59, of Dundee, Mahaicony were treated and subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Owner of the truck, Amo Prashad, 38 was detained for questioning following the accident and later released.
He told Stabroek News that he was asleep when the loud impact woke him up. When he looked out he saw the CRV stuck onto the back of his truck.
He immediately ran out and assisted persons in rescuing the injured men. He said he had to move the truck forward a little to release the other vehicle to get the men out. He recalled that “public-spirited citizens” rushed them to the hospital.
Prashad, who was still shaken by the accident when he spoke to Stabroek News, said he would normally park the truck in his yard but during inclement weather would leave it on the road.
He explained that he had to leave home at 2 am yesterday and if it had rained he would not have been able to get out easily.
He said he was supposed to transport sand from the sandpit on the Linden Highway for a construction project on the East Coast. He had to cancel that job.
He said his truck was damaged in various parts such as the “gear mount and engine mount, drive shaft and springs and I would be in a lot of expense to fix it.”
Residents told this newspaper that the deceased and the two other men were seen consuming alcohol earlier.
At Singh’s home, neighbours and relatives had gone to console his wife, Haimkumarie. The woman said when she got the news a neighbour took her to the scene with his minibus but the injured men were already taken to the hospital.
When she got there her husband was still in an unconscious state and succumbed about 15 minutes later.
She said he had left home earlier with Bissoon, an employee and Gopaul to go to Unity but could not say where they went after that.
Bissoon’s relatives said though that he had left home to “take a drink” with the other two men and they had decided to “pass around” at a wedding celebration in the area.
They assumed that the men were on their way there when tragedy struck.
Bissoon sustained injuries to his neck and other parts of his body.
Gopaul’s wife, Lynette who was hesitant to speak to the media at first said that someone called to inform her that her husband met “with an accident.”
She went to the hospital and was crying but the doctors informed her that he was doing better. He is currently being treated in the Intensive Care Unit at the GPH.
