Taxi driver dies, cousin critical after Corentyne smash-up
One man is now dead while another is seriously injured following an accident along the Corentyne Highway, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), on Sunday evening.
Dead is 26-year-old Kevin Alert of Eversham Village while the injured man was identified as 21-year-old Nicklous Johnson of Number 51 Village.
According to the Police, on the day in question at about 22:50h, Alert was driving motor car bearing registration number PAC 1403 along the Number 63 Public Road at a fast rate of speed when he lost control and slammed into a concrete culvert and then into a utility pole.
Dead: Kevin Alert
The car then came to a halt in a nearby trench.
At the time, Johnson was in the front seat passenger. However, as a result, both Alert and Johnson received injuries to their bodies.
They were picked up in an unconscious state by public-spirited citizens and taken to the Skeldon Public Hospital and subsequently transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital. Johnson was admitted in a serious condition.
The uprooted utility pole
Alert, however, succumbed while receiving medical attention. An eyewitness told Guyana Times that it was his culvert that the car hit. According to Lakeram Singh, the car was travelling at a very fast rate.
“He was taking the Number 63 Village turn going towards Skeldon and the tires started to screech because the driver lost control of the car and it careened onto the tip of my culvert, hit one of the road light poles; breaking it from the root and continued its journey towards the rice mill first entrance.”
The car in the trench after the accident
The eyewitness said at that point the vehicle flipped twice before coming to a halt in front of the rice mill which is situated next to his property.
Meanwhile, Afia Alert explained that her now dead brother operated a hire car between Corentyne and Georgetown, and on the night of the accident, he and his cousin were on their way to Skeldon.
She could not say what the reason for the trip to Skeldon was but noted that the car belongs to another cousin. Police say that the incident is still being investigated.
