Latest update December 19th, 2024 3:22 AM
Driver flees after killing Poultry rearer
After attending church on Sunday morning as he normally does, Wilbert Anthony died last night in a fatal accident at the Camp Street Gas Station.
Wilbert Anthony
Kaieteur News understands that the motorcyclist of Lot 27 South Haslington, East Coast Demerara rode into the gas station around 6:00 pm to replenish his fuel and upon leaving the premises, he was struck by a reckless minibus driver who steered off of Camp Street. The impact was so hard that the 52-year-old was hurled several meters away from his bike. Eyewitnesses said that the hit “left him twisted on the road, his cellular phone close to the drain and his shoes in another direction.”
He was subsequently taken to Georgetown Public Hospital by concerned members of the public where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
As for the minibus, this newspaper understands that it was towed away from the gas station after the driver reportedly fled the scene.
The dead man’s relatives were eventually contacted and they arrived at the hospital around 7: 30 pm.
Anthony’s sister, Roxanne Blades said that her brother was a quiet person who lived a very simple life with his niece in Haslington. She said, too that he reared poultry for a living but on a small scale.
Blades added, “This comes as very sad news to us. Is only this morning he went to church and give God thanks for spared life. Who would have thought he would’a get call home today? It hurts because he was a God-fearing man. The church people heard the news and even some of the members came down with us because they were in shock.”
Meanwhile, cousins of the deceased stood at the entrance of the hospital pacing back and forth as they held their heads screaming for their relative. What was also painful for them to accept was when doctors informed them that they could not see the body of their cousin.
The matter is currently being investigated by the police.
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