A Vreed-en-Hoop carpenter was killed on Sunday night after he was run over by a car along New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara.
Deolall Singh, 44, of Kidram Street, was on his way home on his bicycle around 9 pm when the incident happened.
The police have since confirmed that they have held a man, suspected to be the driver, although there is information to suggest that another person was behind the wheel of the car that claimed Singh’s life.
A passenger in a bus heading in the opposite direction when the accident occurred told Stabroek News that the bus swerved to avoid a collision from an oncoming car. The car had swerved to avoid hitting Deolall, who was riding at the time. The passenger said another car, which was close behind the first car, subsequently crashed into the man.
Deolall was later seen lying on the cabin of the car. He appeared dead at the time, the passenger said.
Dhanrajie Singh, 77, the mother of the deceased, could not say where her son was coming from at the time of the accident. She recalled that he was at home during the day assisting with work around the house and he left home later in the afternoon to go out.
She said she received a call around 9.15 pm informing her of the accident.
She went to the scene of the accident but she was told that her son was already taken to the West Demerara Regional Hos-pital. She then rushed to the hospital, where she was told that her son was already dead and his body was placed in the morgue.
Although police confirmed a man is in custody, Dhanrajie said witnesses told her that a woman was driving the car that struck her son and subsequently dragged him some distance before coming to a halt.
Dhanrajie said she later met the woman at the hospital. “When me reach… somebody ask for the boy mother and me seh me a the boy mother and the woman go turn and say let the boy mother eff off,” she recalled.
The woman’s response, Dhanrajie noted, outraged onlookers.
However, Dhanrajie said a man, believed to be a relative of the woman, told the police that he was driving at the time of the accident and the police subsequently arrested him. “He take the blame fuh she so the police lock he up,” the mother said.
Deolall returned to Guyana from St Kitts just over a year ago to live with his mother, after his sister, who had been living with her, passed away.
At her home, where she was being consoled by neighbours, the grieving mother said Deolall was the third of her four children to have died.
Dhanrajie also said she appreciated that relatives of the man who is in police custody visited her but she told them to return when her only son, who will be travelling home from St Kitts, arrives. She said dealing with her son’s death is too much for to handle at her age.
Deolall is survived by his mother and brother.
