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Berbice doctor’s death…Truck driver arrested

Oct 02, 2013 News

Police in Berbice arrested a truck driver of Number Two Village, East Canje yesterday, in connection with the death of prominent Physician/Surgeon, 69-year-old Phyzul Azeem Sattaur, of Lot 5-7 LFS Burnham Street, New Amsterdam.
Sattaur was driving a Toyota Mark II PJJ 6228 making his way home from a cricket match at the Albion Cricket Ground in the vicinity of Farm, Number 11 Village, Corentyne, when he slammed into the back of a truck GPP 251 which was heading in the same direction.
He was rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital and later died from several broken ribs and multiple head injuries.
The truck driver was heading home for the day after transporting paddy to and from Black Bush Polder. “Me just hear ‘bram’!” he said on Sunday evening to this newspaper. “The impact push me in a corner,” he stated. He claimed that he was “driving at the regular speed”.
The doctor’s wife had claimed that the truck driver 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 man denied the accusation, but was nevertheless arrested, and is likely to be charged.

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