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Agri. Ministry Field Officer dies after colliding with horse
Stray animals on the road claimed another life yesterday shattering the Christmas plans of an East Coast Demerara family.
Olester Ward, a 39-year-old father of two of 13th Street, Dazzell Housing Scheme, Paradise was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation shortly before 02:00 hours after colliding with a stray horse on the Lusignan Railway Embankment while heading home on his motorcycle.
Ward, a Field Officer attached to the Ministry of Agriculture was returning from a get together at his place of work when the tragedy occurred.
Dead: Olester Ward
There were no eyewitness to the accident but there are reports that after colliding with the horse, Ward lay on the roadway for several minutes.
It was only after persons who live in the area heard the continuous revving of the motorcycle that they realised something was amiss.
An ambulance was subsequently summoned and ward was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
His wife Shondell told this newspaper that she had spoken to her husband for the last time at around 20:00 hours when he told her that he was at the Christmas get-together organized by his work place.
She said that she would normally telephone her husband constantly whenever he is out late at nights but for some strange reason she fell fast asleep on Saturday night.
Early Sunday morning she was awakened and kept awake by several telephone calls, one of which was from the police.
Kaieteur News understands that the police had retrieved the dead man’s cellular phone and was able to contact his relatives from the numbers listed on it.
According to Mrs. Ward, the police did not tell her what had happened to her husband but advised that she report to the Vigilance Police Station.
“I could not leave my two children alone in the house at the time,” she said.
Then she received a call from her husband’s father who informed her that Ward was involved in an accident.
It was only until close to day clean that a colleague of her husband came to her home and subsequently took her to the hospital where she learnt of her husband’s demise.
“He would normally drive but I used the car yesterday and he decided to ride,” the distraught wife told Kaieteur News.
The motorcycle that Ward was riding when he collided with the horse.
Ward’s death has also taken a sever toll on his five year old daughter who still believe that he is alive.
According to Mrs. Ward, the child keeps asking for her father saying that he will be back home when “he wakes up from the doctor”.
Police said that charges are not likely since they may not be able to ascertain the owner of the horses that roam the East Coast Demerara roads on a daily basis.
Several motorists have lamented the wanton presence of these animals mostly at dimly illuminated areas of the road.
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