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GPL employee killed in road accident
An employee of the Guyana Power and Light Corporation, Leonora Branch has become the country’s latest road fatality. He was struck down as the country observed National Road Safety month.
According to reports, 60-year-old Arjune Rampersaud, of Ocean View, West Coast Demerara, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Leonora Cottage Hospital at around 15:45 hours on Tuesday.
Dead 60 year-old Arjune Rampersaud.
At the time of his death no one had any idea who he was. He was just listed as unidentified. It was only early yesterday morning that the man was positively identified by his son at the Ezekiel Funeral Parlour.
Rampersaud’s daughter, Sabrina Rampersaud, who is also an employee of GPL, said that it was her mother who called her Tuesday evening to inform her that her father did not come home.
“She called me saying that daddy didn’t go home and she was worried because it was very unusual.”
According to Ms. Rampersaud, her brother and other relatives began a search during the wee hours of Wednesday morning and were told that there was an accident.
“Based on the description we received we suspected it was daddy but we were still hoping for the best…So I called the police and they gave me the same description and they told me that the person died in the accident,” Ms. Rampersaud related.
Early yesterday morning relatives went to the funeral parlour where their worst fears were confirmed. Relatives said they last saw Rampersaud alive on Tuesday morning when he left for work at Leonora.
This publication was told that the man would normally make his way to work on his bicycle but the morning of the accident he left the bicycle home and was dropped to work by a relative.
According to a police report, Rampersaud was struck down by a reversing motor lorry around 15:45 hours on Tuesday while he was walking along the De Willem, West Coast Demerara Public Road. The driver of the vehicle has since been detained and is assisting the police with investigations.
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Sad way to go RIP you never know when its your time to pass this world .
There needs to be harsher punishment for these kinds of crime. I am sure he will walk free. This is so very sad. RIP Mr. Ramerpsaud