A man died after being hit by a truck last night on the Railway Embankment Road at Chateau Margot.
Dead is Abdul Zameer Abrahim, a 30-year-old joiner and resident of 259 Sixth Street Success who was hit by a Toyota truck when walking along the embankment road around 8.45pm.
According to the Chairman of the Community Policing Group, who identified himself only as ‘Prim‘ he was at home with his daughter watching television when he heard a loud “slam” on the road. When he got tohis gate, he said that he saw a silver-grey Toyota on the corner, but did not see Abrahim at first. “I didn’t see he immediately because he was a far distance from the truck… the vehicle really had to be speeding in order for the man to have been flung such a far distance,” Prim said.
After checking the man’s pulse, he realized that he was already dead; “He did already dead by the time I get there,” he said.
Since he knew Abrahim, he then informed the family of their relative’s death.
When Stabroek News visited the dead man’s family they were already in the process of making preparations for his wake. According to Regha and Bibi Farida Ram, the man’s uncle and aunt, though Abdul had a house in Eighth Street Success, he stayed with them, as they were the ones who had taken care of him since his mother passed away when he was 8. A tearful Regha related that “It [the vehicle] had to knock he hard because it look like all he back did bruck up.” When asked where the dead man would have been headed at that time of the night, Ram speculated that his nephew would most likely have been on his way home from work.
Ram said that when the family visited the Beteverwagting police station, the driver of the vehicle involved in the accident had been detained by the police and that when he was breathalysed, “the police seh he blood alcohol level did over the limit.”
Neighbours of the dead man recalled that “he really liked his liquor,” and would drink a lot, but stated that he never consumed to the level where he was not able to navigate the streets. He was described as a very friendly and jovial individual.
He leaves to mourn his aunt and uncle, as well as numerous cousins. .
