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Pedestrian killed on way to party

Oct 17, 2011 News

 

 
A 65 year-old pedestrian heading to a birthday party was killed on Saturday after being struck by a car.
The accident occurred on the Waller’s Delight Public Road just in front of the victim’s home.
According to reports, Berti Baichu was pronounced dead on arrival at the West Demerara Regional Hospital at 20:30 hours on Saturday. The dead man’s brother Khrishna Baichu said that earlier in the night his sibling indicated that he was heading to a birthday party further up the West Coast of Demerara.
Khrishna said while he was carrying out his duties at a gas station nearby he noticed his brother preparing to cross the road.
“The next thing I hear is like somebody get knock down and when I raise up and look across the road I see a man lying on the road,”
The man said he and other persons who were in the gas station at the time rushed to aid the victim, and it was then that he realized that the injured man was his brother.
“I didn’t see anything all I hear was this loud crash and I see a man who turn out to be my brother lying on the road and the car stop a lil distance away…but it look like my brother de just cross the road to catch a bus.”
The man added that with the assistance of another person he placed his brother in a car and took him to the West Demerara Regional Hospital, where he succumbed.
According to Baichu, his brother worked as a chicken farmer and lived alone at the time of his death since most of his children have migrated, and his wife passed away several years ago. His relatives are maintaining that at the time of his death he was not under the influence of alcohol.
The driver of the car has been detained.

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