An airport taxi driver died instantly yesterday morning when the car he was driving slammed into a sand truck in the vicinity of Land of Canaan on the East Bank of Demerara.
Sooklall Roopnarine, known as `Blinky’, age 42, of Soesdyke also on the East Bank of Demerara was making his way back to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri where he worked, around 7:30am when he overtook a car and crashed head-on into the truck.
A member of the public said that the taxi driver seemed in a hurry as he was speeding and overtook many vehicles prior to the last car. “He speed past we and when we see the traffic backing up we know it
