1 dead, 1 critical after car crashes into arch at NA

One man is now dead and another is critical after the vehicle in which they were travelling crashed into the arch at New Amsterdam, Berbice in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) in the wee hours of Monday.

Dead is Rawle Victor, 38, a poultry farmer of Percy Smyth Street, Number 2 Village, East Canje, while 23-year-old Mario Ramacingo of Sheet Anchor Village, East Canje, has been admitted a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital suffering from several injuries including a fractured hip.
The now dead man’s wife confirmed that he was consuming alcohol with friends prior to the fatal crash.
However, Police stated that the motor car, PHH 9366, was being driven by Victor at a fast rate of speed when he lost control and collided with the concrete base of the New Amsterdam Arch.

As a result of the impact, the driver and occupant received injuries and were taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital in an unconscious state.

The dead man’s wife, Janice Daniels, told Guyana Times that he left to take the car to be washed but after hours had elapsed, he did not return home.
“Yesterday (Sunday) whole day I didn’t talk to him and about 3:30 – 4 o’clock, he bathe and got dressed and he told his friend that he was going to the car wash and coming back just now. I don’t know if he go to the car wash or what but later I hear that he and some of his cousins drinking by one of their cousins in Sheet Anchor,” the woman related.
The 24-year-old mother of two, who is also three months pregnant, related that as he was leaving home, he took his cousin with him. She said she has not been able to find out what transpired after he left Sheet Anchor.
She said it was sometime after 01:00h of Monday morning that she was informed that he was involved in an accident and that his condition was critical.
“When I reach to the hospital there was my child father Rawle Victor lying down there with his eyes open and lifeless… No voice or anything could come out of his mouth like ‘J’ or Janice or babe,” she said as she broke down.
The couple has been together for ten years. Meanwhile, this is not the first time a vehicle has crashed into the base on the arch, damaging it. On the two previous occasions, the municipality had asked the drives to repair the base.