A Corentyne teacher died yesterday morning after he lost control of the vehicle he was operating along the Albion Public Road and crashed into a utility pole, a fence and then a garage shed.
Dead is Sydney Cort, 39, a teacher at the Port Mourant Primary School, Rose Hall Town, Corentyne. The crash occurred around 1.15 am yesterday.
According to information gathered, Cort was proceeding west allegedly at a fast rate when he lost control of his vehicle and struck a utility pole. His car then reportedly spun into the fence and shed and came to a halt in a nearby yard.
His wife, Trishanna Park-Cort, said that Sydney had dropped her and their baby home around 9 pm on Saturday after which he returned to Rose Hall Town to hang out with some of his friends.
The emotional woman said that she was later informed that Cort was on his way back from dropping a friend home when he crashed. She said, “They were hanging out and then he left to go drop a friend home somewhere down the road. Then I just received a call saying come to the hospital and when I reach there he was already dead.”
Sakeena Ali, whose fence and shed Cort crashed into, said that she was awakened by the sound of the impact just before 1.30 am.
“We hear the sound and then our car alarm go off so I look out the window and I see we garage shed fall down.”
She and her boyfriend immediately ventured downstairs and it was then that they discovered that a car had crashed into their yard bringing down the shed on their vehicle.
According to Ali, they immediately rushed to Cort’s assistance. She said that a police patrol was passing at the same time and it rendered assistance in removing the man but “them tell we he dead.”
Ali informed that police on the patrol told them at the scene that they saw the speeding car pass the Albion Police Station and they decided to head out onto the road.
Ali’s car was severely damaged and her front fence was also destroyed.
Cort’s wife described her husband as one of the happiest and most selfless humans she has ever met, stressing that he is well known to light up any room he walks into. She said, “He’s a person who wouldn’t say no to anybody, a person who would give his best whether he knows you or not.”
A number of his former students also took to social media yesterday to express their condolences calling him one of the best mathematics teachers in the region.
