A Venezuelan national was on Monday morning crushed to death by a motor lorry along the Sarah Johanna Public Road on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD).
Dead is 35-year-old Francisco Simosa of Sarah Johanna Village, EBD, while the driver of the truck bearing registration number GYY 6047, has been identified as 32-year-old Shamby Yamat also of Sarah Johanna, EBD.
A Guyana Police Force statement informed that according to enquiries, the pedestrian, Simosa, was standing facing north on the eastern parapet on the Sarah Johanna Public Road, while the motor lorry was proceeding south along the eastern side of the same road. The motor lorry then drove past Simosa, stopped and reversed. It hit the man in the process and ran over him.
