A reportedly intoxicated fisherman of Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was crushed to death by a car on Saturday evening after he fell from a stall onto the roadway.
Dead is Rooplall Rukhdeo (Esho), 49 years old of 26 Peter Street, Annandale, ECD. The man was struck by motor car PLL 4752.
The dead’s man foster daughter, Nafeiza Ramnauth, told Stabroek News that her father was sent on the road by her mother, Shazeela Khan around 6:30 pm/6:45 pm on Saturday to buy bread. However, her husband didn’t return.
Afterward, Ramnauth added that a man arrived at their home on Saturday night and shouted: ”Shazla, Shazla your husband dead!” Ramnauth related that her mother didn’t believe him at first because she replied to him by saying, ”You are mad!”.
The intoxicated man then went away and came once again repeating to Khan that, “Esho is dead”. Eventually her mother went out on the road to see what the man was talking about, she saw the crowd and then saw her husband lying dead in the corner of the road.
Ramnauth said that her understanding from the people that were with her father at the time of his demise, is that he was on the stand and fell down. However, when she revisited the scene on Sunday while the police were taking measurements of the distance from where the stand was to where Esho fell on the road, it shows he didn’t land at the middle of the road, she said, “the man fell right in the corner of the road.”
Ramnauth said that there was a speed bump near to where her father fell and it had to be that the driver was speeding.
Meanwhile, a police report revealed that around 19:04 hours on Saturday the driver of the motorcar, PLL 4752 was proceeding north along the western side of Annandale Access Road when it was alleged by the driver that he saw a group of persons sitting on a wooden stand on the western side of the road imbibing alcohol. When he was passing, one of the individuals who was sitting on the stand, fell onto the roadway and in the path of his motorcar.
As a result, the left front wheel of his car ran over the pedestrian. Rukhdeo was picked up in an unconscious condition and conveyed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corpora-tion (GPHC) in a police’s pick-up. He was seen and examined by a doctor on duty and was pronounced dead on arrival.
The police further stated that a breathalyzer test conducted on the driver found that he had .004% microgrammes of alcohol in his system.
The autopsy that was done at the GPHC yesterday morning by Dr Nehaul Singh revealed that the cause of death was multiple injuries to the head.
