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Accident on No 19 Public Road leaves one dead
…driver was reportedly unlicensed
The Berbice accident
Dead: Travis Lagadoo
The accident in the city
An accident on the Susannah Public Road, East Coast Berbice, on Sunday evening claimed the life of a young unlicensed driver.
Reports are that the vehicle, a black Toyota Carina PLL 8762 owned by Ramesh Baron of Gangaram and driven by Travis Lagadoo, 17, of 219 M&TC Housing Scheme, New Amsterdam, was going at a fast rate of speed towards New Amsterdam with two passengers.
In the vicinity of Susannah the driver lost control of the car and it slammed into a GPL Utility Pole. The impact plunged the entire area into darkness.
According to eyewitnesses after they heard the impact the place got immediate ‘blackout’.
They hurried to the scene and saw three persons in the vehicle.
The driver was pinned in front and was bleeding profusely. The residents stated that he seemed unconscious.
Alistair Henry and his wife Babita Seepersaud, both of New Amsterdam, were in the back seat. They were reportedly coming from the Digicel Event at the Number 63 Beach. The resident stated that they assisted in freeing the three occupants who were then placed in a minibus and rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where the driver was pronounced dead on arrival.
Residents said that the woman who suffered a broken leg told them that she repeatedly warned the driver not to go so fast. He was reportedly travelling at 160 KPH.
It was reported that the car was rented from Barran. At the Beach, Lagadoo collected the car and decided to make a quick trip to New Amsterdam. Reports are that he was not a licenced driver. It is understood that his relatives did not know where he was, because he was not supposed to go to the beach.
The injured couple is at the New Amsterdam hospital.
The accident occurred not too far from where 12 persons died last year in a horrific accident involving a truck and a minibus.
And in the city, residents of Queenstown got a glimpse of a familiar scene—two cars colliding at the intersection of Church and New Garden Streets.
A hire car heading north along New Garden Street refused to stop at the intersection and got hit by a car travelling east along Church Street. The impact sent the hire car slamming into a lamppost.
No one was seriously hurt but traffic was snarled until the police cleared the wreck.
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