Police Constable Khrystania Yasin, also called Delon, of Lot 3-5 Sookdeo Street, Vryheid, West Canje Berbice, died on Friday after colliding with a bicycle being pushed by a mentally-ill woman along the East Coast Berbice Highway.
Reports are that the 22-year-old Policeman, who had been serving at the Whim Police Station on the Corentyne, had been making his way home from work at about 23:00h on Thursday when he collided with the woman along the Borlam
Dead: Khrystania Yasin
Public Road, ECB.
The Police stated that Yasin was driving his motorcycle, CG 7801, proceeding west along the southern carriageway of the Borlam Public Road when he collided with pedestrian Youlander Collins, 27, of Dazelle Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara, a patient at the National Psychiatric Hospital at Fort Canje who had stolen a bicycle which belongs to a nurse and was pushing the machine along the roadway.
Both were rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where Yasin died at about 05:30h on Friday. Collins was later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital and admitted in a stable condition. Reports are that she suffered a broken leg.In a release, the Guyana Police Force said it mourns the death of a colleague member who succumbed to accident injuries. According to the release, the rank died hours after the accident.An employee of the Guyana Police Force for the past five years, Yasin had been selected for promotion to another department, Amsterdam disclosed.
“I just selected him to go on a CID [Criminal Investigation Department] induction course, which is going to start next week.
When I came to the division, he worked in Intel (Intelligence) and then subsequently transferred to Whim. We had a slot for four more ranks, and I selected him to go. He should have gone this morning for the interview to be on that course which starts sometime next week,” Amsterdam related.
Yasin was not the only family member in the force. Two other brothers are serving members of the GPF.
Amsterdam told the media that the woman was seen pushing the bicycle along the road moments before the accident.
“How she got out I don’t know, but what I know is that she was walking along the road that hour of the night, pushing the bicycle,” he detailed.
When this publication visited the National Psychiatric Hospital, security was strict. Back in January, a prison warden had made his way into the compound and fatally stabbed his wife, a cosmetologist. Director of Regional Health Services, Jevaughn Stephen, had said then that security would be tightened at the institution.
