Motorcyclist killed, pillion rider injured

A motorcyclist was killed and his pillion rider hospitalized on Sunday after an out of control pick-up crashed into them at Rose Hall, Canje, Berbice.

Mukeshwar Seelall

Dead is Mukeshwar Seelall, 23, of Gangaram, East Canje, Berbice while Latchman Singh also 23 of Canefield, East Canje has been admitted a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

According to a police press release yesterday, investigations have revealed that around 10.30 pm on Sunday, Seelall was riding his motorcycle along the roadway with pillion rider Singh the driver of motor pick-up PHH 1025, which was proceeding in the opposite direction, swerved across the road and struck them down.

The driver of the pick-up fled the scene while the injured men were taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital where Seelall was pronounced dead on arrival and Singh admitted. The pick-up was lodged with the police, the release said. The driver of the pick-up was early yesterday located by the police at Fort Wellington Hospital where he was admitted a patient.

Seelall’s mother, Drupattie Seelall told this newspaper that her son, a transmission operator with NCN in New Amsterdam, had left home that night to go to work. Shortly after, she said, she received a call and the person told her that Mukeshwar was in the hospital and asked her to go there right away. However, as she was preparing to leave, a neighbour went over to her house and told her that her son was dead, Drupattie said.

The grieving woman said that Mukeshwar worked with NCN for the past three and a half years and had purchased the motorcycle in the first week that he worked there. Mukeshwar was the younger of two children and he also leaves to mourn his father.