Taxi driver killed in smash-up at Supply

Jun 25, 2008 News

A 39-year-old taxi driver became the country’s latest road fatality when he lost his life in a smash-up with a minibus at Supply, East Bank Demerara early yesterday morning.

Carlton Lynch, of Paradise, East Coast Demerara, was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) following the accident which occurred at about 04:30 hours.

Lynch was returning home after dropping off a passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

According to the police, investigations revealed that Lynch was driving motor car HB 2268 to the city when his vehicle strayed into the path of minibus PDD 8880 driven by Hassan Inshanally, of Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara proceeding in the opposite direction. A collision resulted.

The minibus was transporting Hazrat Ally, three; Yunis Inshanally, 15; Yusuf Baksh, 42; and Abdool Razack, 63.

The police said that following the collision, Lynch was taken to the GPHC where he was pronounced dead on arrival while Inshanally, Ally, Baksh and Razack were admitted as patients at the Diamond Hospital.

Yunis Inshanally and Yusuf Baksh were treated and sent away.
Speaking with this newspaper last evening, Lynch’s wife, Yonnette Glasgow-Lynch, a teacher at the Paradise Primary School, said that she received word of her husband’s demise just after five yesterday morning.

She told Kaieteur News that at first she did not believe that her husband had died since she was confident about his driving.

However, upon arrival at the hospital and viewing his body, she broke down and had to be consoled by relatives.

“This is a shock because he has been driving a taxi for about seven years.”
Lynch is the father of an 18-year-old.

Meanwhile, police in Berbice are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of tractor operator Poolandai Ramotar, 35, No. 47 Village, Corentyne, which occurred about 14:30 hours on Monday, in the backlands of No. 55 Village.

Poolandai Ramotar, assisted by Arjune Persaud, was ploughing a rice field that was filled with water.
It is reported that during this activity the tractor turned over and pinned Ramotar.

Help was sought from other persons in the area and Ramotar was taken out and rushed to the Skeldon Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

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