A 20-year-old Customs Broker died early this morning after he lost control of his car which smashed into a utility pole behind the Continental Group of Companies, Industrial Site, Mandela Avenue.
Adrian Hoosain of 133 Meadowbrook Gardens seems to have been alone when the accident occurred. The young man’s relatives are baffled as to what caused his accident, particularly because of the angle in which his mangled vehicle was found.
His aunt, Alison Lanferman told Stabroek News that the family was alerted to the accident around 4:00 hrs by officials of the Georgetown Public Hospital. Hoosain was rushed to the hospital by members of the Guyana Fire Service after they liberated his limp body from the badly damaged car. Reports say that firefighters had to cut the car open to get Hoosain free.
While this was taking place his family had not yet been alerted and his mother Marcelle Hoosain, was awake and worried. Lanferman shared that Hoosain’s mother awoke around 3:00 hrs. today to find that her son had not yet come home. He had left the house late Saturday night to take his girlfriend to her West Coast Demerara home. The return trip should not have lasted very long, so when the man’s mother found that he was not at home she called his cellular phone several times but got no response.
When their phone rang sometime later, Lanfernman said officials at the hospital informed the family that Hoosain had been involved in an accident, and that they needed to come down to the hospital. When they arrived, they were allowed to see the man’s body lying in a bed. He was already dead, although they were unable to say if he was pronounced Dead on Arrival at the hospital.
Hoosain’s aunt said that his head was injured in several places. The area around his right ear, for instant, was bruised and there was a cut very close to the ear from which he was bleeding. She added that Hoosain’s lips were extremely swollen, almost as if they were “bags of water.’
The family does not know where he was going at the time of the accident, or even which direction along Mandela Avenue he was travelling, but some of Hoosain’s friends said that he had joined them at the 704 Sports Bar prior to taking his girlfriend home.
As things stand, observers, including Hoosain’s relatives, can only speculate on the cause of the accident since there seems to not have been any eyewitnesses. Police are currently investigating the matter but until findings are produced some allege that he imbibed too much alcohol and crashed as a result. A relative who Stabroek News spoke to suggests Hoosain might have fallen asleep at the wheel and veered off the road.
Ultimately though, there is no definitive answer. “We don’t have any clue of what actually went on. Cause of how the car hook around the post this is what we’re trying to figure out,” Hoosain’s aunt explained. Hoosain’s family says he had been driving for a bit more than two years and that this was his first major accident. Hoosain’s birthday was just twelve days away.
