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One dead, two critical after SUV slams into parked truck
Dead: Chaitram Singh
Critical: Gopaul Brignandan
Critical: Bissoondatt Narine
One man is dead and two others critically injured after the Honda CRV in which they were travelling crashed into the back of a parked truck on the Novar, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara Public Road on Monday night.
Chaitram Singh, 54, of Lot 11 Good Faith, Mahaicony, succumbed to his injuries while he was being treated at the Mahaicony Hospital around 22:50 hours.
His friends, 57-year-old Bissoondatt Narine, of Novar, Mahaicony and Gopaul Brijnandan, 59, of Dundee, are receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital where they were taken early yesterday morning.
Police, in a statement, said that their investigations revealed that Singh was driving motor vehicle PKK 9600 along the Novar, Mahaicony Public Road when he lost control and collided with motor lorry GJJ 4906 which was parked on the road.
From all indications the men were heading to a wedding house in the area after imbibing somewhere else, when the crash occurred.
The owner of the truck, Amo Prashad, told this newspaper that he had parked his vehicle on the parapet in front of his house since Monday morning.
He said that he was asleep on Monday night when he heard two loud impacts and upon looking outside, he saw that a sports utility vehicle was pinned under the tray of his truck.
“This vehicle lash, pitch and like he come again and hit. We come down and like the vehicle engine (CRV) de still running, like foot right down to de accelerator and music playing inside. I just switch it off because fire de starting,” Prashad told Kaieteur News.
The mangled Honda CRV in which the three victims were travelling
He said that he saw three men lying unconscious in the vehicle.
“Buddy, all three ah dem man dead, dead drunk. We assist dem, tek dem out and so and dem go down to Mahaicony Hospital. All three ah dem de alive, but not long after, I think, de driver died,” Prashad stated.
Haimkumarie Singh, the wife of Chaitram Singh, said that her husband, who was a joiner by profession, had borrowed her son’s vehicle to go to work at Unity, Mahaica.
She said that he must have picked up his two friends on his way back home.
According to Mrs. Singh, a relative called her and told her that her husband was involved in an accident.
“Although it was late in the night, Mrs. Singh said that she left her home and went to the hospital where she saw her mortally wounded husband.
“He died about 15 minutes after reaching the hospital,” the woman said.
At the home of Bissoondatt Narine, relatives were desperately hoping that he recovers from his present critical condition.
A male relative at the Novar home told media operatives that Narine who was sitting in the front passenger seat is suffering from a fractured neck and four broken ribs.
He had celebrated his 57th birth anniversary on Sunday.
“They lef fuh go tek a drink and like they must be get invite to de wedding and they decide fuh pass round, and is going they de going deh now and dat happen,” the relative said.
Lynette Brignanand told this newspaper that her husband left home around 14:00 hours on Monday.
She said that she received a telephone call from an unknown caller who told her that her husband was involved in an accident and that they needed her son at the hospital.
She accompanied her son to the hospital but she did not go inside.
While waiting outside, she started to cry but was quickly consoled by medical personnel at the hospital.
“They say he was better than when he arrived there first,” Mrs. Singh said.
She explained that at the Georgetown Public Hospital, doctors operated on her husband’s throat which was injured as a result of the accident.
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