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One dead, another hospitalised after car slams into truck seized from BaiShanLin
The Dundas family of Kuru-Kuru, on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway is now mourning the loss of a loved one after the car he was travelling in slammed into a truck that was reportedly seized from the Chinese company, BaiShanLin International Forest Development Inc., earlier that day. 
According to sources, the incident occurred around 21:00hrs on Sunday night, just past Kuru-Kuru.
Dead is 41-year-old Carl Dundas, while his wife, 35-year-old Rona Dundas; and the 21-year-old driver, Nathan Heyligar, were rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre. They were subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for further treatment.
Rona Dundas suffered lacerations about her body and was discharged from the hospital yesterday. She told Kaieteur News that she and her husband, along with Heyligar and another female, whom she identified as Alana Barker, were in Yarrowkabra on the Highway participating in the Amerindian Heritage Celebrations when a call was made for them to return home.
The distraught woman continued that her husband and Heyligar were imbibing and she was concerned about their safety. Questions, she said, were asked about Heyligar’s ability to take them home safe. However, they departed for Kuru-Kuru after some deliberation.
Mrs. Dundas said that Heyligar began speeding on the highway. The woman said that she cautioned him twice but her warnings fell on deaf ears.
“Carl was in the front seat and I hear him say, ‘Look the truck’ and that is all I remember,” she said.
Mrs. Dundas said that after she woke up, she inquired about the other female, Barker and was told that the young woman escaped the incident unhurt and had returned to her Kuru-Kuru home.
Meanwhile, Heyligar remains hospitalised at the GPHC. He is nursing a broken right leg and lacerations about his upper body.
The injured driver told this publication that he is trying his best to remember what exactly transpired however, all he remembers is slamming into the back of a truck – which he said, had no backlights.
Carl Dundas and Heyligar were workmates who operated a truck for a dredge owner in the interior.
The Dundases have eight children together of whom six are of school-age. Mrs. Dundas is now contemplating her next move since her husband was the sole breadwinner in the family.
The truck that the car slammed into was reportedly one of the vehicles that were seized from BaiShanLin by officials of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Sunday last at Coomacka, Linden.
Reports were that the GRA Officials descended upon BaiShanLin Company to confiscate machinery amongst other things, due to an alleged breach of contract on the part of the Company. There was reportedly an altercation between the two entities which resulted in guns being drawn. The truck was being driven to the City when tragedy struck.
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