One man has died and four others were nursing injuries at the Linden Hospital Complex last night, following an accident about four miles from Mabura.
Dead is Desmond Hooper of Fyrish Village, Corentyne, Berbice. This newspaper understands that he and Lasel Gordon, 30, of Victory Valley; Dexter Jacobs, 29, of South Amelia’s Ward; Collin Nedd, 35, of Blue Berry Hill and Sean ‘Chicken’ Griffith, 36, also of Amelia’s Ward as well as three others were on their way to ‘French Man’ an interior gold mining area, when a tyre on the pick-up they were travelling in, PKK 2652, blew out causing the vehicle turn over two times.
The survivors told Stabroek News that they were all thrown out of the vehicle before it came to a halt. “When we checked to see if everybody was alive and out of danger we see de brother in bad shape,” one of them said.
The accident occurred just after 11 am on Sunday, but by the time the passengers reached the Mabura Medical post, around 6 pm, Hooper had died.
Gordon, Jacobs and Nedd suffered multiple injuries about their bodies, while Griffith suffered injuries to his back. At the hospital Griffith was crying out for excruciating pain and was unable to turn without assistance.
The other occupants in the vehicle escaped unhurt and the driver, Linden Hoyte of Post Office Street, Grove East Bank Demerara, was detained at the Mabura Police Outpost to assist with investigations.
Police from the E and F Division were to be deployed to the area yesterday morning to conduct further investigations.
