A 29-year-old man was killed instantly after he was hit by a car on the Lusignan Public Road while on his way home early yesterday morning.
On hearing news of the accident, relatives of Mohan Kumar Shaw rushed to the scene only to hear that his body had already been taken to the mortuary. When Stabroek News visited the man’s Lusignan Pasture home yesterday, his extended family was in deep sorrow and a neighbour recounted how they would miss ‘Kero man’. Shaw and his family sold kerosene in their East Coast Demerara community.
Shaw’s brother, Merai Jitendra, told this newspaper that he had last seen his brother on Sunday afternoon when he left home and headed for his wife’s home at Parika. He said everyone expected his brother back home early to start working early yesterday, as was his habit. “We don’t know exactly what happen but we heard that he was walking coming across the road out by the Lusignan centre ground when he was hit at about 4 o’clock. But by time we hear and we reach out we hear how police carry he body down to the mortuary,” the man said.
Jitendra said some relatives had heard of the accident but had no idea that it was Shaw. His death was confirmed after someone who positively identified the man informed them. “So we went down to the parlour and we identified him and he look as though he injured bad and probably broke his neck,” another relative said.
A minibus driver at the family’s home said he was leaving home around 5 and had noticed a small crowd and policemen and police vehicles and had noticed the man lying on the road, appearing dead. “But I didn’t think that it was him or else I would have come in and tell them,” he said.
Shaw leaves to mourn his wife, two children, parents, four brothers and one sister.
A post-mortem examination is to be conducted on the man’s body on Thursday.
The driver of the vehicle that hit the man is said to be in police custody assisting with investigations.
