Dead: Rondell Marlon Rahaman and his wife in happier times
A father of two is now dead after he reportedly lost control of the motorcycle he was riding and crashed into the car on the Corentyne Highway on Thursday.
The dead man has been identified as 35-year-old Rondel Marlon Rahaman, an operator of Bloomfield Village, Corentyne, Berbice.
The accident occurred on Thursday at about 8:00h at Tain Village along the Corentyne Highway, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) but Rahaman later succumbed to his injuries.
At the time of the accident, the father of two was riding a motorcycle bearing registration plates CK 7484
The dead man’s wife, when contacted, explained that she received a telephone call shortly after her husband left home. The caller stated that Rahaman was involved in an accident and instructed her to go to the Port Mourant Hospital.
When she arrived at the medical facility, her husband was in an unconscious state with injuries to the lower part of his body along with head injuries. She said she was told that his condition was serious.
The motorcycle that Rahaman was riding at the time of the accident
“They transfer him to the New Amsterdam Hospital. When I got there, they allowed me to pay him a visit again and then I had a talk with about ten doctors within the space of one hour. They told me that my husband is brain dead and his feet are broken. However, they told me that they were going to transfer him to Georgetown Hospital but after they made a phone call, Georgetown said that they can’t do anything about it.”
The injured man was eventually placed in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the New Amsterdam Hospital where he took his last breath a short while later.
According to the aggrieved wife, the person who contacted her witnessed the accident.
“She told me that my husband’s motorbike was going towards Rose Hall and the vehicle turned out from a corner in front of my husband’s motorcycle and he pitched off from the motorbike and went up in the air and come down back,” the now widowed woman said while adding that she was also told that her husband remained on the road for some time as the driver was reluctant to render assistance.
“The guy at the barber shop told me the same thing when I went to the scene. He said that he is the person who had to force the driver that hit down my husband to take him to the hospital.”
According to the woman, her husband, who was a hire car operator, left home to go and pick up the car to take his children to school, something he usually does on a daily basis.
Regional Commander, Senior Superintendent Shivpersaud Bacchus told <<<Guyana Times>>> that the driver was arrested. He told the Police that he did not see Rahaman.
“He just said that the motorcyclist was travelling from one direction to another and he did not see the motorcyclist and came out of the street and the motorcyclist ran into his back,” Bacchus stated.
The dead man’s wife, who is also a Government part-time worker, said they had been married for seven years. The taxi driver previously worked in the security department of the Albion Sugar Estate.
Rahaman is the 20th road fatality for Region Six for the year thus far and the 11th motorcyclist to have lost his life. (Andrew Carmichael)
