A cyclist of Line Path, Skeldon, Berbice died on Tuesday when a motor lorry which was attempting to overtake him on the Skeldon Public Road struck him.
Dead is Yatambeo Hiralall, 59, of Lot 7 Line Path, Skeldon.
Reports are the accident occurred about 19:30h on Monday evening as the man was riding with his birds.
Dead: Yatambeo Hiralal
Guyana Times was told that Hiralal was proceeding north along the Skeldon Public Road while motor lorry BKK 7698 was proceeding in the same direction.
The motor lorry, which was at the time being driven by a 76-year-old man of Rampoor Village, Corentyne, failed to overtake the cyclist and struck him from behind.
The man after being hit was reportedly thrown some distance from his bicycle.
An eyewitness told the media that he heard a loud noise and immediately rushed to investigate when he saw Hiralall lying next to a drain, with his bicycle on the parapet.
He was picked up and rushed to the Skeldon Hospital in an unconscious state but succumbed to his injuries at about 23:00h.
Speaking with this publication, the dead man’s wife, Ramdai Hiralall related that her husband left home at about 18:00h to “ride out his birds”. The grieving woman said she was finishing up her chores when she was informed that her husband was at the hospital.
She related that she rushed to the medical facility where she saw him.
“He didn’t get none injury outside, the doctor seh he get internal injury and that he nah get head injury, ” the woman said.
According to her the doctors at the Skeldon Hospital informed her that Hiralall would have to be transfer to the New Amsterdam Hospital. However there was no available ambulance at the time.
“Me ask where the ambulance deh but the doctor say about forty minutes more and by time that the doctor come out and tell me he dead.,” the grieving woman related.
Hiralall leaves to mourn his two children and wife.
The driver of the motor lorry was taken into Police custody as investigations into the incident continues.
