As he heroically tried to save his girlfriend from being struck by a speeding car, a 22-year-old employee of Farfan and Mendes died in a hit-and-run accident which occurred about ten feet from Lamaha and Carmichael streets, Georgetown.
Rodwel Brummell, a stock taker died instantaneously after he was hit from behind by the red car as he walked west on Lamaha Street accompanying his girlfriend Samantha Benn to her home.
“I can’t tell you what really happened because everything was so quick. I just feel he push me hard into the corner and as I was looking back to ask him why he push me I saw that he was in the gutter bleeding and looked dead”, a weeping Samantha recounted to Stabroek News.
The young woman who was consoled by her boyfriend’s mother, Foyleann Van Klaveren, said that because of the speed of the vehicle she was unable to say what type it was or record a licence plate number. “I am sorry, so sorry I did not see what hit him if it was a car or bus. What all I know there was a red bumper not far from where he was”, she said. When she saw Brummell’s mangled body lying in the drain nearby she began screaming but no one came to their assistance. Instead everyone just came around the scene staring. Someone called the Georgetown Hospital Ambulance which took Brummell to the hospital but he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Benn said that she and Brummell had been out and he was escorting her to her home.
A woman who was walking behind the couple said that it was a car and the hit and run happened so swiftly she did not see the young man being hit. “This red car fly past me suh ‘Woosh!’ and I want know if the driver drunk or crazy and a matter of seconds I hear a sound Bam!’ but didn’t know what it was only when I walk up I see the boy lying dead in the corner”, she said.
At the GPHC Brummell’s mother told Stabroek News that her son, the younger of two children, was on his cell phone speaking to her when he was struck down. She said that when the call abruptly ended she assumed that his credit had expired. “I was talking to him on the phone when it just cut off and I didn’t think anything of it …say he credit must be done and I went back to the computer only to be called by her(Benn) to say he get hit down and was dead”, she said.
Very composed and consoling relatives around her, the woman described the former McKenzie High School Student as a “hard working fun loving and good child.”
Police are investigating the accident and collected the broken piece of the car and took statements from Benn and other eyewitness.
