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Welder killed in highway crash
Minutes after telling his wife he was coming home, a 27-year-old welder died in a horrific crash involving his car and a pickup near Madewini on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
Benedict Bacchus, of Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara, was heading to his wife’s residence at Mackenzie at around 22.55 hrs on Friday, when the crash occurred.
Benedict Bacchus
According to police reports, Bacchus was driving at a fast rate when he lost control and swerved into the path of an approaching pickup. He sustained multiple injuries and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre.
Bacchus’ wife, Alisa Parris-Bacchus, told Kaieteur News that her spouse telephoned her at around 22.00 hrs on Friday, while heading to her residence. “He said that he just passed Splashmin’s and that he would be home in about 20 minutes. But I knew that he could not reach home in 20 minutes,” the woman told this newspaper.
Mrs. Parris-Bacchus said when she called a few minutes later, someone else answered her husband’s cellular phone.
“I asked what happened and the person say ‘pray and ask God that this man live; he going to the hospital and maybe he done dead’.” She later spoke to her mother-in-law and was told that her husband had passed away. The couple has a 10-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son.
Bacchus’ mother, Susan Charles, said that a police rank contacted her by phone at around 23.00 hrs. “He asked if I was Benedict Bacchus’ mother and said that my son got in an accident and he died.”
Mrs. Charles said that the pickup driver, who is from Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, apologized and offered his sympathy when she met him at the police station.
She said that the man claimed that he saw her son’s approaching headlights and that Bacchus appeared to swaying on the roadway. The driver reportedly also said that he did his utmost to avoid the collision.
Mrs. Charles expressed puzzlement that while the passenger’s side of her son’s vehicle was badly damaged, the driver’s side was intact.
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