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Crash doctor succumbs
By Leon Suseran
Dr. Phyzul Azeem Sattaur, the Berbician who crashed his vhicle along the Number 19 Highway succumbed to his injuries late Sunday evening. Sattaur, a well- known Physician/Surgeon of Lot 6 LFS Burnham Street, New Amsterdam, was driving his car PJJ 6228 home from a cricket match at the Albion Cricket Ground when he slammed into the back of a lorry GPP 251 which was heading in the same direction.
Dead: Dr. Phyzul Sattaur
A public-spirited citizen who was in the area, pulled Sattaur, 69, out of the mangled car; placed him in his canter truck and rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital, shortly after 18:45 hrs Sunday evening. Efforts to transport Dr. Sattaur for further medical attention at the Georgetown Public Hospital were abandoned since his condition was at its worst.
Senior colleagues in the medical fraternity including Dr. Mohamed Yacoob and Dr. Narinedatt Sukhnanan were seen consoling the wife, Dolly.
An autopsy performed yesterday by Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan on the body at the N/A Hospital concluded that Sattaur died as a result of multiple injuries.
Yesterday, Sattaur’s wife, Dolly, was not in a state of mind to offer any comment. She however stated that her husband had telephoned her around 18:30 hrs that evening telling “me that he will be home in half an hour.” She stated that she later received another call from a friend asking her to confirm her husband’s licensed plates number, which she did, and was informed that her husband’s car was badly mangled along the Number 19 Highway and that “I should go to the hospital,” which she immediately did.
Mrs. Sattaur added, too, that the family does not know the name or identity of the person who pulled her husband from the wreckage and took him to the hospital. She asked the nurses and doctors “and nobody knows.” Her husband left home earlier in the day to attend a meeting with some other doctors at Albion after which he stepped across to the Sports Complex to see the cricket match.
Mordecai Ramsundar, the truck driver of Number Two Village, East Canje was still visibly shaken from the accident on Sunday. “Me just hear ‘bram’!” he said. “The impact pushed me in a corner,” he stated. He stated that he was driving at the regular speed when he heard a loud impact at the rear of the truck. The owner of the truck, Edwin Ramcharran, too, was present on the scene, inspecting the rear of the truck.
The truck driver (left) with Drs. Sooknanand and Yacoob
Mrs. Sattaur claimed that Ramsundar stated that he was going to make a stop. “The truck driver said that he was going to stop…I believe he stopped and did not have on any rear lights!”
The owner of the truck, Edwin Ramcharran, stated yesterday that his driver was not about to make any stop. “The man was driving the vehicle all the time. He was coming home from Black Bush. All the lights were operable. I’m now in unnecessary expense…the [truck] spring break—the chassis bent, the u- clamp…all damage!”
Sattaur will be laid to rest on Thursday. He leaves to mourn his children Sharrin, Lana, Michelle and Andre. He was educated in Warsaw, Poland in the 1970’s.
The badly mangled car
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