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Porter crushed by log after truck overturns
A 30-year-old Linden man was crushed by a log, and several persons suffered various
Dead: Allan Mendonza
degrees of injuries, after a truck suffered a blowout and subsequently overturned on the Ituni trail at around 09:00hrs yesterday.
The dead man, Allan Kishore Mendonza, of 42 Lower Kara Kara, Linden, who worked as a porter on the truck, was reportedly sitting in the trailer of the vehicle with a few other men when the accident occurred, in the vicinity of Goat Farm, Ituni .
The truck, GPP 1190, with trailer TPP1162, was driven by its owner Seuchand Swammy, who was reportedly hired by a logger to transport greenheart piles.
Mendonza was employed by Swammy, who is himself a logger, but occasionally works on hire for other loggers, transporting their logs out of the ‘backdam’.
Mendonza was the reputed husband of Geneva Persaud, and is the father of their nine month old child.
According to reports, Mendonza was Swammy’s only employee on the truck at the time of the accident. The other persons who were injured had reportedly ‘hitched’ a ride.
The injured were brought out to the Linden Hospital Complex, where they received emergency medical attention shortly after noon, while the body of the dead man was brought out a few hours later.
Mendonza’s relatives, including his reputed wife Geneva Persaud, rushed to the hospital after the body was taken there, before it was transported to the Upper Demerara Mortuary.
Persaud was inconsolable and too distraught to speak to this newspaper.
Her mother, Taslena Persaud, who was also present at the hospital to view the body, said that her daughter Geneva had last seen her husband on Wednesday morning when he left for work.
Geneva Persaud being supported by a friend.
The woman noted that her son-in-law had worked with Swammy ever since he was a teenager.
Meanwhile the truck driver’s wife, Marva, noted that in all the years she has been with her husband, and throughout which time he has been involved in logging and hiring, he has never been involved in a fatal accident.
Seuchand Swammy is presently assisting police with investigations.
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