Jermin Khan had to be cut out of the truck he was driving along the Itaballi Road, Region Seven on Saturday afternoon only to be pronounced dead hours later at the Bartica Hospital.
Khan’s wife told Stabroek News yesterday that she received a phone call at around 15:30hrs notifying her that her husband had passed away after being involved in an accident and her nephew had been seriously injured.
The dead man’s wife relayed that she was told by her nephew, who was up to yesterday being treated at a private hospital in Georgetown for broken bones and a swollen spleen, that the truck that the two men and two other passengers were in was transporting fuel and rations to a mining camp.
She said that she was told that an ATV with two men approached along a bend in the road and as the ATV passed the truck her husband was driving, Khan swerved to avoid it. She said that the movement along the road caused one of the truck’s wheels to become stuck in a ditch. Khan lost control of the vehicle and it flipped thrice, pitching two men out and pinning two others including her husband.
She said that one of the men from the ATV rode back to the toll station at the Mekdeci Crossing where he alerted an officer to what had happened. The two men then returned to the scene but upon realising the seriousness of the accident had to once again turn back to get additional help as well as tools to free the driver.
Her nephew reported that his uncle had called out to him and the calls brought him out of unconsciousness but due to his broken bones he was unable to do anything and he drifted in and out of consciousness. She stated that when her nephew finally came to he could no longer hear his uncle calling for help.
The traumatized widow said that she met her husband’s body at the wharf where she helped to carry him off the boat. She said that doctors worked on him but it was too late and he was pronounced dead. “I lie down pun the bed and I call for he, I shake he, but he done dead,” the woman said between tears.
She was in disbelief as she spoke with Stabroek News recalling that when she was told by one of the persons on site that her husband had passed, “I asked did you call he? Did you touch he?”
Khan’s widow said that her husband has driven this same road for some 10 years and he was an experienced driver working for multiple companies over the years bringing in rations and fuel. A post mortem examination will be performed on Wednesday.
The emotional woman said that Khan’s 23-month-old son was calling for his father all night. She said that Khan had three other children from a previous relationship.
The woman said that she was still worried for her nephew stating that the young man’s mother had him transferred to a private facility after he was discharged from the George-town Public Hospital Cor-poration yesterday morning. She said that her sister, the young man’s mother, noticed that her son was still very sick and his chest and abdomen seemed to be swelling so they rushed him to a private facility where the extent of his injuries became known.
