Truck driver charged with crushing elderly pedestrian to death

Dev Harkishun

Truck driver Dev Harkishun was yesterday placed on $350,000 bail after he was charged with causing the death of Stanley Roach, 71, who was crushed on the Rupert Craig Highway last Saturday.

Harkishun, 22, of Lot 1A Pump Road, Liliendaal, East Coast, Demerara, was not required to plead to the indictable charge of causing death by dangerous driving when he was arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The charge, read by Magistrate Fabayo Azore, stated that on October 19, along the southern carriageway of the Rupert Craig Highway,