Seventy-two year-old Randolph Rodney was headed back to church to collect his forgotten bottle of lemonade on Friday night, when he was struck down by a speeding car on the Railway Embankment Road at Beterverwagting (BV), East Coast Demerara.
Rodney was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The accident occurred around 9 pm while Rodney and his brother were returning to a church in their village to collect a bottle of lemonade that he forgot.
When Stabroek News visited his home yesterday, his brothers were hesitant to provide any information surrounding his death.
However, one of Rodney’s nieces, who asked not to be named, said her uncle was a sickly man