Duo killed in Corentyne hit-and-run

– driver of getaway car arrested in G/town

A man and woman were on Friday evening killed in a hit-and-run accident along the No 70 Public Road, Upper Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
The dead man has been identified as 20-year-old Toney Lakeram also called “Arvey”, a carpenter of Number 71 Squatting Area, Corentyne. The identity of the female is still unknown.

Dead: Tony Lakeram

Residents recalled seeing Lakeram riding an electronic bike alone prior to the accident.
Police stated that the accident occurred at about 23:20h on the Number 70 Public Road, Corentyne, and involved the electric bike and an unknown motor vehicle.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the vehicle was speeding along the roadway when it collided with the duo and continued on its journey.
As a result, the duo sustained injuries about their bodies and was picked up in an unconscious state and taken to the Skeldon Public Hospital where they both were pronounced dead on arrival.
Nevertheless, at the scene of the accident on Saturday morning, there was no debris that suggested that an accident had occurred.
However, the dead man’s father, Mukesh Suresh, recalled seeing the bodies at the hospital after he rushed there upon receiving the news. His son’s motionless body was lying on a stretcher.
“His foot break and he had blood on his face and the girl, she damage more bad; she foot break up more than one place,” the aggrieved father said.
Nevertheless, there are reports that suggest a second vehicle may have been involved in the fatal accident. Nafeeza Sattar told Guyana Times that she heard an impact but did not get out of bed immediately to enquire.

The area where the two bodies were found

“My mother went outside and she say that the two people were lying on the road and then a car come and knock one of them and the car slow down but did not stop and then it drive away,” Sattar said, adding that when she looked out of her verandah she saw the two persons on the roadway.
Speculations that the vehicle which was involved in the accident belonged to a Police rank were debunked when the Communions Unit within the Guyana Police Force (GPF) later confirmed that the car that was involved was located.
This publication understands that the car was found at Number 69 Village while the driver was arrested on Saturday afternoon at Kitty, Georgetown.
Police have since ruled out that the vehicle was involved in the accident.