An overseas-based Guyanese man was killed last Friday by an out-of-control SUV as he stood on a Brooklyn, New York sidewalk waiting for a bus to get home.
According to a New York Daily News report, police and eyewitnesses said Persaud, 47, was hit and pinned when a carwash attendant lost control of a customer’s Jeep Commander and mounted the sidewalk, where he was waiting for a bus.
It said Persaud normally took the subway home from his construction job but on the said day he was waiting for a bus at Atlantic Avenue and Milford Street when tragedy struck.
The report stated that according to the police, the 64-year-old carwash employee, Joseph Razzano, was pulling the freshly cleaned SUV out of the drive-in car wash when he lost control of the vehicle, which then hopped the curb, struck Persaud, and pinned him against a building wall.
Razzano, who did not have a valid driver’s licence, was arrested but later released with a desk appearance ticket for aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, the police said.
The report said Persaud immigrated to Jamaica, Queens, from Guyana three years ago and worked as a construction worker, specializing in welding.
Persaud, who enjoyed returning home to Guyana, leaves behind three children in Guyana and five step-children in New York.
