A Corentyne hire car driver died on Sunday evening after he lost control of his vehicle and it slammed into a culvert and then into a utility pole before toppling into some nearby bushes.
Dead is Kevin Alert, 24, of Eversham Village, Corentyne, who was driving motor car, PAC, 1403 at the time of the accident. Alert’s cousin, Nickolas Johnson, 21, of Lot 19 Number 51 Village, Corentyne, who was also in the vehicle, is hospitalized in a serious but stable condition at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
According to information gathered, the men were heading towards Skeldon when the accident happened just around 11.50 pm.
The Guyana Police Force in a statement said that the motor car was proceeding south along the Corentyne Highway allegedly at a fast rate.
While in the process of negotiating a right turn at Number 63 Village, Corentyne, the driver reportedly lost control and ended up on the western side of the road where he collided with the concrete culvert and then ran into a GPL utility pole.
In a video taken by residents in the area, the vehicle could be seen coming to an abrupt halt in some nearby bushes along the road shoulders. Residents were noticed removing the men from the crash site and shouting for help to take them to the hospital.
They were picked up in an unconscious condition and rushed to the Skeldon Public Hospital from where they were subsequently transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
Alert was pronounced dead on arrival at the second health facility while Johnson was admitted in a serious but stable condition.
The deceased’s sister, Afia Alert, said that she was at work when she was informed minutes to midnight on Sunday that her brother had been involved in an accident.
“I rush out and rush to the scene but when I get there they were already at the hospital and when I get to the (Skeldon) hospital they were already in the ambulance to go to New Amsterdam and when we get to New Amsterdam the doctor pronounce he dead on arrival”, she related.
According to the sister, Alert would usually operate the Berbice to Georgetown route.
“It’s a kinda hard situation but we are trying to cope with it right now… My brother is a very kind-hearted person, he’s a person that doesn’t speak much unless something really bother him then he would speak. Otherwise to that he is a very easy, outgoing person”, she added.
She recalled, that she last saw her brother on Saturday evening “and I went to him and we had a nice conversation and when I ready to leave he tell me ‘take it light’ and I come home.”
Alert leaves his girlfriend, siblings and parents to mourn.
