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Pedal cyclist dies after struck by car
After being struck down by a car on the Timehri Public Road, East Bank Demerara, 20-year-old Feliciano Clenkien, is the country’s latest road fatality.
Reports are that the accident took place around 12:00hrs as the young man was making his way back home after arranging to go into the interior to work.
Dead: Feliciano Clenkien
Clenkien, a Timehri resident, worked both at sea and in the interior.
At the time of the accident, he was on his pedal cycle supposedly banking a turn around the “Icehouse Road” at Timehri when the car (PNN 1817) slammed into him.
His body was hurled into the air and landed some feet away on the grass.
Public spirited individuals which included ranks from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rendered assistance and rushed the injured man to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, for immediate treatment.
Kaieteur News was told that while being transported to the hospital, Clenkien was in the company of a GDF medex who was doing his best to keep the young man alive. He was said to have a “weak pulse” upon arrival at the hospital.
According to the group who took Clenkien to the hospital, they (including Clenkien) had to wait almost 30 minutes before they were paid any attention.
A nurse finally came to their assistance, however; after taking one look at the man she pronounced him dead.
“He dead man, he dead” said the nurse.
The GDF medex insisted that “there was a pulse” and that Clenkien was not dead as the nurse claimed. The nurse briefly checked for a pulse and remained adamant that “he dead”.
One woman present stated “I don’t know you could just check somebody pulse so quick”
After the GDF medex persisted that Clenkien was indeed still alive, the nurse eventually called in some doctors, where two of them viewed the man and said “he done dead”.
The vehicle which was involved in the accident
Kaieteur News understands that at this point the hospital staff was preparing to send Clenkien to the mortuary but the GDF medex kept saying “the man ain’t dead!”
“They bring some machine and check the man and then hurriedly chase everyone out of the room” said a source.
The man subsequently died at the said hospital.
Clenkien’s cousin, Joan Reece, told this newspaper that her deceased cousin used to live with her at Timehri, EBD, and he had left home earlier to make arrangements of going into the interior to work.
While he was returning home he was struck down.
“I was at work when his brother came and told me that he was in an accident. We took a taxi and went to the Diamond Hospital. When we got there he was already dead. We spoke with the doctor who said he had head injuries and internal bleeding and they took his body to a city mortuary,” said Reece.
The young man’s father, Errol Clenkien, told Kaieteur News that he was en route to Georgetown around 12:30 hrs when he became aware of the accident, however; he did not know it was his son that was involved.
Sometime later, a relative notified him that it was his son who was injured in the said accident, and thus the worried man changed route and ventured back to Timehri.
The distraught man stated that he visited the Timehri Police Station to confirm the information he received and when this was done the police ranks began to take some information from him about his son.
By the time the man arrived at the Diamond Hospital, his son’s body had already been taken to a mortuary. He said that the deceased was his “last son”.
When Kaieteur News visited the said hospital to enquire of the situation, a nurse on duty contacted the hospital’s administrator, Kevin Manna.
The administrator indirectly refused to speak with this newspaper.
Manna, through his nurse related that “it is after 16:30hrs. If they want a comment they need to contact the police station or the Ministry of Health. The young man died upon arrival.”
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