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Mar 23, 2018 News
A 54-year-old father of two was on Wednesday fatally struck by a car along the Bloomfield, Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.
The dead man has been identified as Donovan Baromasi of 86 Bloomfield. The driver has since been arrested.
Son of the deceased, Kevin Baromasi, 22, stated that it was a norm for him to call his father to accompany him home.
“My mother said a truck was parked on the road and she go in at the back and sit down, and my father was standing outside at the back of the truck behind the white line, when a car coming speed, speed and then it knock me father”.
He said when he arrived on the scene he met his father’s lifeless body on the public road with a crowd gathered.
He immediately made efforts to rush his father to the Port Mourant Hospital. The man was pronounced dead on arrival at the medical institution.
According to the dead man’s son, the driver of the vehicle that hit his father was heading East when the accident occurred.
He subsequently turned in the opposite direction and headed to the Rose Hall Outpost where he reported the accident.
He opined, “If he did pick up me father he coulda live”.
Meanwhile, according to police sources, the driver of the car was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the arrest.
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