Speeding driver killed in Diamond crash

Nov 01, 2010 News

A speeding driver was killed just before midnight last night and his wife injured after the car they were in slammed headlong into a utility pole on the east Bank Demerara public road near Little Diamond.
The driver, identified as Bopendra Narine, a barber of Grove Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara, died at around 23:30 hrs at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, despite valiant efforts by medical staff to save him.

A grief-stricken relative

His reputed wife, Amanda Singh, 26, sustained head injuries and was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
Narine and his wife were heading south along the East Bank Demerara public road at around 22:30 hrs, in their vehicle, which had the words ‘Black Lightning’ emblazoned on it, when he lost control at the turn near Diamond Distilleries Limited.
He skidded off the roadway and slammed into a utility pole with such force that it snapped in two.
Eyewitnesses said that his spouse, Amanda, was hurled through an open window into a nearby ditch.
A relative of Narine’s, who was driving nearby and witnessed the accident, took the badly injured man and his wife to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre.
As the medical staffers battled to save the unconscious man, relatives who gathered outside the hospital became incensed when they realised that there was no ambulance driver present to transport the couple to the Georgetown Public Hospital. At the time, there were two ambulances in the compound, but no driver was around.
Eventually, an ambulance arrived from the GPHC, but by then, Narine had already succumbed.
Earlier in the day, motorcyclist Robin Ali was killed on the same public road when his CBR motorcycle crashed into a pole near Houston.