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Apr 06, 2013 News
– driver detained
Yet another home is without a breadwinner, a housewife is in grief, and a dangerous overtaking move leads to a vehicle crushing someone to death. This time an estate lorry, GNN 3172, proceeding north along the Port Mourant Public Road shortly after 12:00 hrs yesterday, snuffed out the life of 47-year-old Joseph Harry.
Reports are that Harry and other sugar estate workers of the Albion/Port Mourant Estate were heading home for the day in the lorry when the vehicle overtook a horsecart on the road, “and like it [the lorry] lean for one side and he [Harry] fall off on one side and like the wheel crush him”.
That was according to the man’s grief- stricken wife, Kamroon Ali.
“He fall back and slide under the wheel,” she cried.
Harry was taken to the Port Mourant Hospital where he was rushed to the emergency room. He had several injuries including broken ribs and damage to the head. After several x-rays were performed, the man was then transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital sometime after 15:00 hrs where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
His brother, Tom Harry, was very critical of this. He questioned why his brother could not have been rushed immediately to the Georgetown Hospital to receive medical attention, since his injuries were very serious.
“The doctor (at Port Mourant Hospital) took so long to come,” the dead man’s brother reflected. He added that the lorry was said to have been speeding and that it may have been overloaded since it “leaned” while overtaking.
Ali also complained that “ the ambulance took so long to transfer him to New Amsterdam”.
Joseph Harry was employed as a planter in the estate fields for over 14 years and apart from his wife, he leaves to mourn two daughters – Elizabeth, 19 and Diana, 20.
The driver of the lorry has been arrested and is assisting police with investigations.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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