A Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) farmer is now dead after he lost control of the car he was driving and crashed into a bridge along the Corentyne Highway on Sunday morning.
Dead is 28-year-old Lakchan Premkumar of Lot 126 Grant 1805 Crabwood Creek. Reports are that the accident occurred about 05:45h on Sunday.
Premkumar, who was driving motor car PAD 3731, was on his way to New Amsterdam when the accident occurred a stone’s throw away from the Albion Police Station.
Dead: 28-year-old Lakchan Premkumar
According to the Police, the cash crop farmer was proceeding west along the southern drive lane of Kilcoy-Chesney Public Road allegedly at a fast pace when he lost control of his vehicle and ended up on the northern side where he collided with a concrete bridge.
As a result of the collision, Premkumar was thrown from the vehicle into a drain.
He was picked up in an unconscious condition by a party of Policemen and taken to the Port Mourant Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The dead man’s wife, Lalita Lakram, told Guyana Times that Premkumar had left home about 05:00h on Sunday to participate in a bird whistling competition in New Amsterdam, some 60 miles away.
She said it was the wife of one of his friends, who telephoned her and told her about the accident, but could not provide much detail.
The mother of one said she then called her husband’s cellular phone and a female answered it and told her that the accident occurred near the Albion Police Station and the Police took him to the hospital.
The woman said she then travelled to the hospital.
According to the now-widowed woman, there was a lot of blood on her husband’s body and there appeared to be injuries on the left side of his face.
“It is really bad; I just can’t face it… it’s really hard. His neck turned to one side; I don’t know if his neck broke.”
The car Premkumar was driving at the time of the accident
Premkumar loved birds and has several which he cherished. On Sunday, he was taking one of his best whistling birds to compete in the whistling competition when he met his demise. The bird, which he had for two years, also perished in the crash.
Lakram said the bird, which was purchased for $300,000, now had a $1 million price tag.
Premkumar, who farmed in the backlands of Crabwood Creek, was known for growing beans, tomatoes, and cabbages.
Lakram recounted her last moments with her husband.
“He got up at 4 o’clock and went and bathe and drank a cup of tea I made for him and then I opened the gate and he hugged me and tell me he gone. That is the last word I hear from him,” the grieving woman said.
The couple had been together for seven years and has one child.
“Now it is just me and my son here and what little we have we have to try with it somehow,” she said (G4)
