A pensioner was on Sunday evening killed after coming into the path of a lorry along the Bath Public Road, West Coast Berbice, Region Five (Mahaica/Berbice).
The dead man has been identified as Majeed Indraneah 68, of Lot 561 Bath Referendum, West Coast Berbice. It is believed that he might have been crossing the road when he was hit by the lorry.
Dead: Majeed Indraneah
According to his sister, Zairoon Rahaim, 44, he was very likely going to her place when the accident occurred. The accident occurred at about 18:30h. The injured man was picked up by the driver and taken to the Fort Wellington Hospital in an unconscious condition. The driver later went to the Fort Wellington Police Station where he was taken into custody.
The pensioner, who worked as a Drainage and Irrigation employee with the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC), did not sleep at his home in an attempt to escape attacks by villagers.
His granddaughter, Shemela Ramnarine, told this publication that youths in the community would break into her grandfather’s home at nights and beat him. She further explained that he was on the road shoulder when she saw him.
“He was standing in the corner of the road. He was alive, and when we reach home we get a phone call saying that a man get knock down and he at the hospital.”
At the scene of the accident, marks on the road indicated that the injured man was picked up 40 metres from the point of impact.
Meanwhile, Ramaim related that the lorry driver told her he dipped his lights after seeing the pensioner seemingly about to cross the road. “An when he do that, he ent see him when he turn on back the bright light.”
The lorry which allegedly hit the pensioner
She said the driver did pick up the injured man after hitting him. However he claimed that he first went to the Police station to report the matter, and then to the Fort Wellington Hospital. The grieving daughter said she found out differently.
According to Ramaim, when she got to the hospital, her father was still alive. “They had him lying on a bed and then they tell us to go outside…. We see when they put on the oxygen mask on him,” she related.
After being stabalised at the Fort Wellington Hospital, Majeed Indraneah was transported to the New Amsterdam Hospital. He died on the way. Ramaim said her father’s hip and ribs were broken.
On February 2, another resident of Bath Settlement, who also lived alone, was hit by a vehicle on the same spot where Indraneah was hit, and he also died.
Meanwhile, on Christmas Eve 2015, Indraneah’s daughter who lived with him at the time drowned in the village, and August last year his wife died; since then he had been alone.
He leaves to mourn three children.
The lorry driver remains in custody assisting with the investigation.
