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Jul 23, 2011 News
An accident on the Number 51 Public Road on the Corentyne, around 11:10 hrs on Thursday left two persons injured, one of whom is fighting for his life in a city hospital. According to reports, two employees of Crown Spot Lemonade Factory, Karran Chooraman, 25 of Tain,
Corentyne, and Mohamed Fauzuddin Ally, called ‘Lil Bai’, 19, of Belvedere, Corentyne were offloading lemonade from their truck that was parked on the corner when a Bryden and Fernandes Canter truck came crashing into them.
Eyewitnesses said that the driver of the Canter truck was speeding and lost control of his vehicle, delving a hard blow to Chooraman, and a lesser blow to Ally.
Chooraman was flung several yards away from the scene and was left lying on the road unconscious.
“He slide from till at the back wheel,” one of the eyewitnesses told Kaieteur News. Chooraman has since been transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation Emergency Unit.
The driver of the truck, Azad, said that he was in front of the truck, in his seat, and that the men were selling the lemonade when he heard a loud impact.
“The man [Chooraman] get lash from till there (behind the truck) and catch the man till a side there…buss up all he head. One of them [Chooraman] unconscious.”
There was some blood on the road as well as broken bottles, evidence of what had happened.
Police quickly arrived on the scene and whisked the two men to the Skeldon Hospital where they are receiving medical attention. The driver of the Canter truck was arrested and taken to the Whim Police Station and returned after a while to the scene to assist traffic ranks with details about the accident.
He remains in custody at Whim.
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