Latest update April 6th, 2025 6:33 AM
Latest News
- High Court bars GRA from seizing Team Mohamed’s luxury vehicles
- Oil spill will hit Guyana’s shores before capping stack arrives to plug leak
- UN says 100 children killed or injured in Gaza every day since war resumed
- Guyana received US$605M oil money in first quarter of 2025
- ‘Tariff war’ spells grave danger for the Region – CARICOM Chair Mottley
Two-vehicle smash-up at Hill Foot claims life of Friendship, ECD man
Kaieteur News- A Friendship, East Coast Demerara (ECD) man was on Monday killed in a two-vehicle smash up in the vicinity of Hill Foot, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.
Dead is 23-year-old Joel Alexander.
Dead, Joel Alexander
According to the police, Alexander of Lot 145 Wilkins Street, Friendship met his demise just around 16:50hrs on Monday. The accident involved his motorcar and a motor lorry owned by Alabama Equipment Rental and Transportation Service which was driven at the time by Sudesh Rohit, a resident of Leguan Island.
Rohit told investigators that the lorry was traveling east along the northern side of the road when the car, which was heading in the opposite direction, overtook a white car and ended up in the lorry’s path.
The truck driver said upon seeing this, he pulled to the left to avoid a collision, but the two vehicles collided despite his effort.
Kaieteur News understands that Alexander as a result of the collision received injuries to his head and about his body. He was removed from the wrecked vehicle by the Police in an unconscious condition and was then taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Center, where he was seen and examined by doctors on duty and was pronounced dead on arrival.
His body was then taken to the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home where a post mortem is expected to be conducted.
Meanwhile, police disclosed that a breathalyzer test was given to the lorry driver but no trace of alcohol was found on his breath. He remains in custody assisting with investigations.
Similar Articles
THE BLUNT OF THE DAY
Sports
Features/Columnists
This must not be our hour of humiliation
Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There are moments in the history of nations when fate lays before them a choice not of... more
The U.S. “Joining” the Commonwealth: an unreasonable expectation
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News- Recent media stories have suggested that King Charles III could “invite” the United... more
Weekend Cartoon
