An early morning accident has left a Cotton Tree taxi driver dead after he reportedly sustained major neck injuries.
Dead is Salim Yusuf, 30, of Lot 40 Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice. Salim, was a taxi driver as well the driver of a Route 56 bus.
The accident occurred around 04:30 hrs.
According to his sister-in-law, Jaswantie Rajkumar, of Lot 42 Cotton Tree, Yusuf left home in his car to head out for a pick up when minutes after they received news that he was involved in an accident on the main road. “We run and go out and we see the car and we see him and he neck bruk when I see him,” Rajkumar said
The sister-in-law explained that an oncoming car clipped Yusuf’s vehicle while he was navigating the Cotton Tree turn, causing it to flip multiple times.
The Guyana Police Force later said in a statement the driver of the other vehicle, was Colin Bynoe, a 33-year-old teacher of Kildonan Village in Corentyne Berbice
Bynoe was proceeding west along the southern drive lane on the said road while Yusuf was proceeding east along the northern drive lane at a fast rate. He, however, lost control and ran into the right side of Yusuf’s car on the southern drive lane.
CCTV footage seen by this newspaper showed the other car sliding on the roadway before hitting Yusuf’s vehicle.
The injured Yusuf, who was unconscious, was removed from his wrecked car by public-spirited citizens and conveyed to the Fort Wellington Public Hospital, where he was seen and examined by a doctor on duty who pronounced him dead on arrival.
Bynoe, the police added, is in custody assisting with the ongoing investigation.
Meanwhile, Rajkumar relayed that Yusuf was a hard worker who was extremely helpful to the family. She said, her sister, Yashoda Chablal, who is Yusuf’s wife, was trying to come to terms with his death.
