Pedestrian dies after leg severed in hit-and-run accident

A pedestrian from Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara (WCD), was dealt a brutal death on Saturday evening after he was struck down and killed by a driver who drove away from the scene.

Dead is Azaad Khan, 42, of Blankenburg, WCD.
Police in Regional Division Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) said after receiving information about the accident, which occurred at around 19:45h on Saturday, an investigation was launched.
Reports are that a black Allion motor car, PTT 952, hit the pedestrian on the Blankenburg Public Road, in the vicinity of the Blankenburg Nursery School.
Police said the motor car was proceeding west along the southern side of the public road at a fast rate of speed and collided with the pedestrian, who was walking across the roadway from north to south.
As a result of the collision, the pedestrian fell on the southern side of the road and his left leg was severed and landed in a yard four houses away.
The motionless body of the pedestrian was picked up by Community Policing Group members and the Police and placed into a CPG vehicle which took him to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where he was seen, examined, and pronounced dead.

His body was also positively identified by his relatives and later escorted to Ezekiel Mortuary for storage, awaiting a post-mortem examination.
However, in a subsequent report on Sunday, Commander for Regional Police Division Three, Assistant Commissioner Mahendra Siwnarine said that the vehicle involved in the hit-and-run fatal accident has been found, and the driver is presently in custody.

The driver has been identified as 28-year-old Vickey Balgobin of Willem, WCD.
The Commander said that the driver has since admitted to Police that he was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the accident, and the reason he fled the scene was that he “panicked”. (G9)