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KN pressman was drinking shortly before crash – police
Police sources have confirmed that Kaieteur News senior pressman Ashim Rafeek was imbibing alcohol shortly before he crashed his motorcycle into an oncoming car, resulting in his instant death on Tuesday night.
Dead: Ashim Rafeek
Divisional Commander, Colin West, told Kaieteur News that he had received information that Rafeek, 24, was imbibing at a shop at Crane, West Coast Demerara, just before he jumped unto his Honda CG 125 motorcycle to head home.
His death has plunged the Kaieteur News fraternity into mourning.
According to reports, Rafeek, of Lot One, BB Eccles East Bank Demerara, was heading in an easterly direction along the Crane Public Road around 22:00 hours when he crashed head on into a car travelling in the opposite direction.
Initial reports indicate that Rafeek crossed into the path of the oncoming car. Such was the impact that the car sustained excessive damage to its front. Rafeek’s helmet ended in the car.
He sustained multiple injuries and was pronounced dead on arrival at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.
Another senior Kaieteur News staff recalled seeing Rafeek at the drinking spot and realizing that he had to ride home, advised him to stop drinking and to go home.
The senior staff member said that he left Rafeek at the shop.
Another friend who was with Rafeek had actually jumped on the motorcycle to hitch a ride but had second thoughts at the last minute and took a taxi instead.
That move certainly saved his life.
Rafeek’s wife, Annie Noharie, who is two months pregnant with their second child, told this newspaper that she last spoke to her husband on the telephone hours before he died.
The car sustained excessive damage as a result of the collision with Rafeek
She said that he told her that he was on the West Demerara, taking a drink and he assured her that he would have been home soon.
“Maybe he was coming home when he get into accident,” Noharie said.
She said that she received news of his death at around 2am yesterday. “I began to tremble,” she recalled.
Their four-year-old daughter, she said, keeps asking about her father and although she tried to delay telling her about his demise, she had to confide yesterday.
“She keeps jumping out of her sleep,” Noharie said.
Up to late yesterday the driver of the car was still in police custody but according to Divisional Commander West, he was expected to be released after the police complete their investigations.
Rafeek, who is survived by his parents, his wife Annie and four-year-old daughter, Alliyah, has been employed at the Kaieteur News for some seven years.
Kaieteur News extends condolences to his parents, wife and other relatives.
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