A 40-year-old labourer is now dead after he was reportedly struck down along the Kuru Kuru Public Road, Soesdyke-Linden Highway in a hit-and-run accident and his family is pleading with the driver responsible to surrender.
Dead is John Albert Wickham, a father of one, of Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.
The accident occurred around 9.30 am on Friday.
According to the Guyana Police Force, Wickham was seen lying on the western side of the public road. He was bleeding.
He was picked up by the police and taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Reports are that Wickham recently moved to the Soesdyke- Linden Highway to live with his parents.
The dead man’s sister, Suzette Knowles, yesterday told Sunday Stabroek that at this point, all the family knows is that Wickham was the victim of an accident.
She said they have no other information. “….I cannot say if it was a car, a bus, a truck, I don’t know. All I know it was a vehicle. We have no clue. None whatsoever,” Knowles said.
However, she made an appeal for the driver to turn himself in so that the family can receive some sort of closure.
“…We are sending out a plea to ask whoever might be responsible to just turn themselves in. Just turn yourself in,” the weeping sister pleaded.
While the police said Wickham was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital, Knowles said her family was told that the man was alive when he got to the facility. “…We were told once he got there he told them he wants to lay down. And from the time they got a bed, he just fixed himself in the bed and he took his last breath,” she added.
She said Wickham provided the police with his mother’s number before he died.
At the time of the accident, Wickham was heading home.
