2 killed after speeding car crashes into electric bike

Two persons died on Tuesday evening following an accident in which a speeding car collided with an electric bike along the Corentyne Highway at Hampshire.
The dead have been identified as 24-year-old Brandon Ramsammy of Kilcoy Squatting Area, Corentyne, a mechanic who had been driving the car; and 60-year-old Mooreer Khan, a security guard who had been riding the electric bike.
Police have said there also were three occupants in the car, and they are all now hospitalised. They have been identified as 23-year-old Rameshwar Sookram of Albion, 29-year-old Joseph Kamaladeen of Chesney; and 31-year-old Rajkumar Veerapen of Market Street, Letter Kenny Village.

They were taken to the Port Mourant Hospital before being transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital, where they were all admitted as patients. The condition of each is regarded as stable.
Police have said that, at around 23:30h on Tuesday, the car, PRR 7985, was proceeding at a fast rate along the Hampshire Public Road when the driver lost control and collided with the electric bike, which was proceeding along the footpath of the road.
Eyewitnesses have said that the car hit a dog and toppled before coming into contact with Khan. As a result of that collision, Khan was pitched onto the parapet and then into a drain, while the car turned turtle on the parapet.

The Police and public-spirited citizens picked up Khan and Ramsammy each in an unconscious condition, while the occupants of the car were each picked up in a conscious condition, and all were taken to Port Mourant Public Hospital, where Khan and Ramsammy were pronounced death on arrival.
Khan had reportedly been returning home when he was hit by the speeding car.
His wife Meena Khan said he had left home at about 16:00h and was expected back at about 23:00h.
“At about 12 O’clock time, somebody came and called my son and told him to come quick. So, I asked them if anything wrong, and they told me, ‘No’. After my son went with them, he called home and tell me that his father dead,” Mrs Khan said, adding that she passed out shortly after.
Ramsammy’s wife Vashti Amarnauth said she was asked to go and identify her husband’s body on Wednesday. She said she had last spoken with him at about 21:30h on Tuesday.
“He leff to go and look after some welding work on the car (which he) was looking after; the welding shop is right in the next street. He say when he finished he would come home. When I called him to see if he finished, he say that he got to go to Skeldon to buy parts,” she detailed.
The woman said she had made contact with her husband, who said he was on his way back from Skeldon, but subsequent calls to his phone went unanswered.
“After ah calling my husband and not getting through, ah continue calling his phone, and then Ramo Funeral Parlour answer the phone and told me that the person whose phone I calling did not make it. They asked me he is who to me, and when I tell them that I am his wife, they tell me to come and identify the body,” the 23-year-old woman related.
Amarnauth said she informed the funeral home that she could not leave her two children alone at that hour, and was then asked to make the visit early on Wednesday morning. According to the mother of two, the occupants in the car were all her husband’s friends, one being a mechanic.
According to some villagers, the four men had been imbibing at a bar in the community earlier in the evening.
Meanwhile, Khan leaves to mourn four children, four grands and his wife.
According to his wife, one of his legs was amputated in the accident and the other was almost severed, and both legs were crushed.
Mrs Khan described her husband as hard working, saying that he did not allow her to do much. “He does do everything, I don’t go anywhere; he does go to the market and buy everything. He works in the night, and in the day he does do some spray work. Sometimes he does carry my small granddaughter to school and then go back in the afternoon at 2 O’clock and collect her, and then relax a bit and go to work for 4 O’clock.”
Investigations are ongoing. (G4)