Man, 43, killed in hit and run accident

Mar 28, 2013 News

By Romila Boodram
Even as the police are trying to implement more stringent laws for road users, a motorcyclist has become the latest road fatality following a “hit and run” accident along the railway Embankment at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara.

The dead man, Ian Chaves

Dead is Ian Chaves, 43, of Lot 9 Crown Dam Industry, East Coast Demerara. He was a former employee at Hand-in-Hand Insurance Company Limited. Kaieteur News was told that the accident occurred shortly after 11:00 hours yesterday.
According to reports, the father of one was heading home on his motorcycle CG1243 after completing a task in Georgetown when the fatal accident occurred.
Yesterday, at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), the dead man’s wife, Khaneza, told Kaieteur News that she was home when she received a call from her husband’s cellular phone.
The caller, a woman who identified herself as “Amanda”, requested her to come to the hospital, “She ask me to come to the hospital and when I come she give me my husband’s phone and tell me that she saw him lying on the road with his face down so they picked him up and bring him to the hospital.”
Late last night, Kaieteur News managed to contact Amanda who related that she and her family were heading to Georgetown when they saw “a body” lying on the road.
“We came out and other people stopped. He was lying face down, his back was bruised, his face was bleeding, his eye lid was burst and he was just lifeless panting for breath so about four of us assisted in getting him in a vehicle and we took him to the hospital,” a devastated Amanda said.
She explained that when she came out of her vehicle, she saw a black car parked about 100 yards away from the scene but drove off after passersby stopped to render assistance. At that time, she explained that her focus was getting the man to the hospital so she was unable to take down the vehicle’s registration number.