- Singh might have suffered a blowout while speeding
A 36-year-old pest control employee was killed shortly after 01:00 hr
yesterday, when the car he was driving at high speed careened off the West
Coast Demerara public road near Ruimzeight and toppled into a canal.
Secharan Singh, called ‘Sunil’, a driver for PESTEX Environmental
Solutions, lost control of the vehicle which overturned several times before
ending up in the canal.
He remained trapped for several minutes in the submerged car and was
already dead when residents, with the aid of a tractor, hauled the battered
vehicle out and tried to revive him.
The Eccles, East Bank Demerara, resident was heading east along the West Coast
Demerara public road in the company vehicle, PLL 131, when the mishap
occurred.
Kaieteur News arrived at the scene a few minutes after the vehicle was pulled
out and observed that one of the tyres was punctured.
This seemed to suggest that Singh might have suffered a blowout while
speeding. A lad who was staying at relatives in Ruimzeight told Kaieteur News
that he heard a loud impact around 01:00 hrs.
The lad said that he went outside and saw the car in the canal at the opposite
of the road. He said that only the wheels were showing.
His relatives then summoned the police.
Another resident told Kaieteur News that he was playing a game of dominoes at
a nearby establishment when the car Singh was driving sped past. He said that
seconds later, he heard a loud impact.
The villager said he “thought nothing of it” until he observed
the lights of several parked vehicles near the accident scene.
After finally hauling the vehicle to land, residents still held out hope that
Singh, who was motionless, might be alive. One man attempted resuscitation but
his efforts were in vain.
Police managed to identify the victim by the documents they retrieved from his
pockets.
They eventually contacted a friend of Singh’s after placing the chip from
the dead man’s damaged cell phone in another instrument.
Singh is survived by his wife, Bibi, and 12-year-old son. A tearful Bibi Singh
said the view that her husband might have been alive had he not heeded a
friend’s repeated pleas to go out on Thursday.
She recounted that ‘Sunil’ came home from work around 16:00 hrs. Around
17:00 hrs, a friend known as ‘Navin’, telephoned and asked her husband to
meet him. After several other calls from Navin, her husband agreed to meet the
friend. Before leaving, Singh asked his wife to prepare his dinner.
“He said ‘Bibi, ah going out give me ah kiss, ah coming back. But he never
come back.”
Mrs. Singh said that around 06:00 hrs yesterday, she heard the blowing of a
car horn outside. She assumed that her husband had come home with a taxi and
wanted her to come outside to pay the fare.
But when she went outside, she was met by a PESTEX employee and his wife.
“He say where Sunil? And I say that Sunil went out and ain’t come back.”
Mrs. Singh said that the man’s wife then asked her to come downstairs and
once she had done so, the woman explained that Sunil was involved in an
accident.
“I say, ‘how bad’, so I could go and see him, and she said I can’t see
him because he in the mortuary.”
Earlier this month, popular
Vreed-en-Hoop businessman, Motieram Ramdin, was killed after a
pickup he was driving at high speed crashed into a tree at Crane, West Coast
Demerara.
Police are probing reports that Ramdin, 55, who owned Ram’s Auto Sales at
Vreed-en-Hoop, was drag-racing when he was killed.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
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