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Friends killed in Eversham smash-up
(Kaieteur News) – The West Bank Berbice community of Rosignol is mourning the tragic loss of two close friends who died in an early morning accident at Eversham Village, Corentyne, on Monday.
Admeer Pooran, 19, of McKenzie Street, Rosignol, and his friend Daniel Vanek Singh, 26, of Murphy Dam, Rosignol, died after the vehicle in which they were travelling crashed into a koker at Eversham.
Admeer Pooran 19, and his one-year-old daughter
Daniel Vanek Singh, 26
Kaieteur News understands that the two men were travelling in a rented vehicle, which had two other occupants at the time. According to police in Region Six, the accident occurred at approximately 03:30.
At the home of Pooran’s family at Lot 163 Murphy Dam, Ally Street, Rosignol, his mother, Devi Anthony, struggled to come to terms with the sudden loss of her only son.
Pooran, also known as Isaiah, was the third of four children. Anthony said she knew very little about what had happened, as she was asleep when the tragedy occurred.
“I can’t say nothing much about last night. I don’t know where he went. Only this morning I got a call about quarter to six time. My daughter-in-law called me and tell me that how he got in an accident, and then I call for my husband and then I prepared to go bathe,” she recalled.
Moments later, Pooran’s wife called again with the devastating news that he had succumbed.
Anthony and other relatives then hurried to the No. 75 Village Hospital, Corentyne, where she identified the bodies of her son and Singh. The bodies were later taken to Anthony’s Funeral Home.
Still trying to understand what had happened, Anthony said her last conversation with her son was on Sunday afternoon.
“I don’t know how come the accident happen, where he was going, where he went. Only this morning I got the call that my son in accident. Sunday, I called him from phone and I tell he must come at me when I come from market. About 2:00 I talk to my son on the phone. That was the last,” she said.
The vehicle involved in the fatal accident
Pooran, a construction worker, was the father of a one-year-old daughter.
He and Singh were described as close friends who were frequently seen together.
At Singh’s Murphy Dam residence, his father, Ian Jainarine Singh, 58, told Kaieteur News that his son and Pooran had left home on Sunday night to attend a wake in Cumberland, East Canje Berbice.
According to the senior Singh, Pooran was driving.
“He said he going to wake. He left home after 9. They went to the wake house first, in Cumberland, and after the wake, he tell he friend let them go home, but he friend insist that they go on a drive,” he recounted.
Singh’s father said he received word of the accident shortly after 07:00 on Monday and immediately rushed to the No. 75 Village Hospital. However, by the time he arrived, his son’s body had already been taken to the funeral parlour.
Singh was a mason who worked alongside his uncle, his father said. He was the eldest of four children.
The two other occupants of the vehicle sustained injuries and were taken to hospital for medical treatment.
Police are continuing investigations into the circumstances surrounding the fatal crash.
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