The first fatality along the newly-built Diamond to Mocha bypass road has been recorded. Dead is Ishwar Mohan, 24, of Success, East Coast Demerara.
According to Mohan’s mother, the family is currently building a house at Farm, East Bank Demerara, and her son, a labourer, was assisting in the construction.
“We building a house at the back dey and he working with we. He does spend weekend and go home. Is home we trying to carry he home…we trying to find he a taxi and he turn back and say he not going home tonight…next thing I hear something go ‘pax’ and me turn back and see is he,” the distraught woman shared.
Asked if she noticed the vehicle which hit her child, she explained that all she saw was a speeding dark blue car and her son in the air.
Another relative described the accident explaining that Mohan was flung into the air suffering fatally disfiguring injuries on landing.
“The car hit he and fling he up and all he hand and head buss open like in two,” he shared.
The vehicle that struck Mohan did not stop.
