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Aug 06, 2013 News
Even as the police are trying to implement more stringent laws for road users, a taxi driver has become the country’s latest fatality following an accident at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara (EBD) at around 07:00 am yesterday.
Forty-two year-old Sooklall Rooknarine, a taxi driver attached to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, was killed on the spot after his car, HB 8254, ended up under a sand-laden truck, GJJ7750, just a few feet away from the Barama Company Limited (BCL). The truck driver, Navin Das, has since been taken into police custody assisting with investigations.
According to reports, the now dead Rooknarine was heading south on the EBD Public Road when he reportedly ended up in the lane of the truck. The accident occurred just as both parties were negotiating a “small” turn in the vicinity of Barama Company Limited
The marks on the road indicate that the truck came to a stop some 20 feet away from the point of impact, with the man and his vehicle ending up partially beneath the truck.
Rooknarine was pulled from under the truck and was taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
At the dead man’s Lot 2 Soesdyke home yesterday, relatives were in tears and were shocked at how the man had met his demise. His mother, Iris Latchman, said that her son left home around 01:00h yesterday to go to work.
“I don’t know what time he get passenger, but like when he de coming home he crash with the truck. Nobody ain’t telling me what really happened. This morning I get a call that my son meet with an accident. I didn’t think it was that serious, so I left to go to the hospital and when I reach in Grove, then I get a call that he died,” a distraught Ms. Latchman said
Meanwhile, the truck driver’s father told Kaieteur News that his son informed him that he was heading to Georgetown when the accident occurred. “He said that he was driving and just as he reached the turn, the collision occurred. He said he mashed brakes but because of the sand, he ended up a distance away.”
Investigations are ongoing.
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