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Nov 12, 2015 News
A man, who made a wrong judgment when he tried to turn around on the Demerara Habour Bridge (DHB) on Sunday and accidently caused the death of his 22-year-old wife, will be charged for causing death by dangerous driving.
The man, whose name has been given as Dhanram Ramdeo Ramlall, will more than likely make his first court appearance at the Providence Magistrate Court today.
Kaieteur News was told that the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) returned the file to the police yesterday and recommended that Dhanram Ramdeo Ramlall be charged.
Around 10:00 hrs on Sunday, the lifeless body of Gangadai Persaud, a mother of one, was pulled from a submerged Canter truck in the Demerara River several hours after it plunged off the DHB.
Gangadai Persaud would be laid to rest today.
The tragic incident occurred when Ramlall reportedly attempted to turn his truck on the bridge, but apparently made an error in misjudgment instead and reversed off the open side of the structure.
At the scene on Sunday, an eyewitness, Mark Henry, said that the Canter truck driver was heading in an easterly direction on the bridge when a bag, containing boulangers fell from the back of his truck.
He said that because it was early, there were hardly any vehicles on the bridge and he (Ramlall) attempted to turn around by the retractor span area, where there are no rails, to retrieve the bag.
“While he trying to turn, I turn to the guy who was in the vehicle with me and said, watch wha going on hey.” By the time I say that, the man back wheel went over and was overboard he reach,” Henry explained.
He recalled that he stopped his vehicle and ran towards the area where the truck went off but of course, there wasn’t anything he could have done since the vehicle was already going under the water.
“I started shouting for help, and like five minutes after I see he (truck driver) come out from under the water and he was holding onto a wire and he said that his wife alone in the Canter,” the eyewitness said.
However, General Manager of the DHB, Rawlston Adams, said that the truck driver provided the Bridge Supervisor, who was on duty at the time, with a different version of what transpired on Sunday.
Adams said the driver related that it was raining and he fell asleep and the vehicle went overboard.
But the General Manager explained that when the divers located the vehicle, it was discovered that the truck went off “back first, because the front was up (under the water) and the back was down.”
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