A sand truck driver is now dead after an accident on the East Coast Demerara just after midnight yesterday.
Dead is 50-year-old, Youghraj Singh of Block ‘B’, Coverden, East Bank Demerara.
According to a statement issued by the police, the accident occurred at 12:30 hrs when Singh who was reportedly speeding, collided with a utility pole on the Good Hope Public Road. He sustained injuries and was subsequently taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
When Stabroek News visited the home of the dead man, his family refuted claims that Singh was speeding.
According to the dead man’s daughter, Fiona, based on the distance between the head of the street that he drove out from and where the truck collided with the pole,
