Corentyne man dies after crashing bike into parked lorry

…as mother calls for authorities to address issue of improper parking on road shoulders

A heavy-duty machine operator is now dead after the motorbike he was riding slammed into a parked lorry along the Corentyne Highway in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
Dead is 26-year-old Ryan Bedasi of Fourth Street Williamsburg, Corentyne.
The incident occurred at about midnight on Friday at Port Mourant, a short distance from the hospital.
The man’s mother, Phulmatie Gangaprasaud, is calling on authorities to pay attention to the improper way some vehicle owners are being allowed to use the shoulders of the road as their private parking lot.
Bedasi was reportedly in the company of a friend when the incident occurred.
He reportedly slammed into the front of a parked truck.

Following the crash, he was picked up and taken to the Port Mourant Hospital, and was subsequently transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries on Sunday morning.
His mother is of the belief that had better care been taken at the hospital, her son might have still been alive today.
“The boy had bad accident, and when they carry him to Port Mourant Hospital, they say that they don’t have a driver for the ambulance. About two hours after, then they get a driver. They carry him to New Amsterdam Hospital. There was no doctor, and again about two hours (elapsed) before the doctor come,” Gangaprasaud said.

She added that her son was admitted as a patient in the ward.
“They tell my brother that this boy foot brake, they didn’t tell him nothing more, and that in the morning (Saturday) they would run a test on him to know if he get any other injuries. When them boys go the next morning to reach the doctor, they say that the thing not working. The doctor what admit my son Friday night coming back till Monday.”
She said her son was in pain throughout Saturday.
“All dem boys in the hospital next to my son say that he holler for pain whole Saturday night…when my daughter-in-law go, his two feet were bleeding – covered with blood. When she asked him what he want, he say that he want some water. When she give him the water he say, ‘Pain too much. I can’t beat it anymore, ah gon go’, and he died shortly after,” she related.
“When you go there, they say it is emergency, and no doctor not there until two hours? Where is the emergency? If you go in the hospital on Friday night, you have to wait until Monday to get the doctor to come to you?” she questioned.
The woman, who is confined to a wheelchair, said her son was the one who provided for the family, since her husband is also incapable of working after his hand was severed in an accident.
“I would like the Government to know that all these big vehicles on the road, killing people children, the owners of those vehicles should have places to put their vehicles. If they have so much vehicles, they should have land to put it – not on the road,” she argued.
Bedasi was the only child of his parents. He also lives to mourn a wife and one child. (G4)