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Jun 11, 2009 News
A 17-year-old boy from Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara, was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital, minutes after he was crushed by his father’s truck that fell off its jack.
Jason De Abreu was assisting his father Terry to free the truck after it got stuck while delivering a load of earth on President’s College Road, Golden Grove, yesterday.
The teen was under the truck trying to clear some debris from around one of the wheels when the jack suddenly slipped and the vehicle came crashing down on him pinning his neck to the ground.
He was pulled out and rushed 17 miles to the Georgetown Public Hospital but succumbed before he could receive medical attention.
Speaking to this newspaper even before it was confirmed that his son had died, Peter De Abreu recalled that the truck was stuck and his son was ‘spading some earth’ from under the vehicle when the mishap occurred.
“We already carry two truckloads for the day and it was the third one we carry when the truck stick,” the distraught father told Kaieteur News.
De Abreu who had remained at the scene of the incident while his son was taken to the hospital soon received word that the young man had died and was inconsolable.
The dead youth’s sister, Shaundellie, also broke into tears when the news of her brother’s demise was relayed.
She said that while her brother was clearing the stuff from around the truck’s wheel, some of his friends called out to him causing him to be distracted from his task.
“Daddy told him to check to see if the jack was okay but he was distracted,” she said.
According to Shaundellie, part of the truck landed on her brother’s neck.
“They pulled him out quick and he was bleeding through his mouth and nose. He was still breathing when he left for the hospital,” the dead man’s sister told Kaieteur News.
Up to late last night the truck remained where it was stuck
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