Farmer crushed by tractor

Jan 28, 2013 News

A 58-year-old farmer was crushed to death at around 07:30 hrs yesterday after falling from a tractor that was travelling near Friendship, on the East Bank Demerara, Public Road.

DEAD: Bissoon Dialnihal

The victim was identified as Bissoon Dialnihal, also known as “Nylon” of Buzz Bee Dam, Craig, East Bank Demerara.
A woman who witnessed the accident said Dialnihal was driving south on his tractor-trailer when a white Allion slammed into the trailer which resulted in Dialnihal falling from his tractor.
One of the rear wheels then crushed the farmer’s head.
The still moving tractor-trailer ended up in a roadside ditch several feet ahead.
“I watch his body jerk three times before it stopped,” the eyewitness recalled.
The woman told Kaieteur News that residents rushed to lend assistance, and after observing that the driver of the motor car had suffered minor injuries, attempted to give him a thrashing.
“They did going and beat he, but he come in we yard and we locked the gate and told them that they can’t do that. The man seemed distressed. Accidents happen, and is not like it was premeditated. It just happened,” the woman said.
The driver was eventually taken into custody while Dialnihal was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre. He was said to have been a well-known farmer in the Grove-Friendship area.
He leaves to mourn his wife and three children.