One dead, four injured in Corentyne accident
The car in which Downer died in the accident on Sunday
The car in which Downer died in the accident on Sunday

A 48-year-old man is dead and four other persons are seriously injured after the car in which they were travelling slammed into a heap of sand on the Cromarty Public Road, East Berbice-Corentyne, on Sunday.

Dead is Adrian Downer, of Lot 79, Fyrish Village, Corentyne. The driver and occupants were reportedly under the influence at the time of the accident.

According to reports, just after midnight on Saturday, the car bearing registration number PRR 8753 was proceeding west along the roadway at a fast rate of speed, when the driver lost control of the vehicle and slammed into the sand.

Downer, who was in the back seat of the vehicle, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Port Mourant Hospital. The injured who were taken there were subsequently transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital.

Dead: Adrian Downer

An eyewitness and resident of Cromarty told the Guyana Chronicle that after the car slammed into the sand, it crashed into a utility pole and spun around a few times before ending up in a trench.

“This car was coming from Skeldon side with good speed, it pitch that sand till into neighbours’ verandah; it coil up on the light post then in the trench. When me run to them man all of them bleeding and one of them was blacking out steady, so we hurry and get them help to the hospital,” the eyewitness said.

“At first, I thought was like gunshot or suh then meh seh no man this different, so I come out and see a set of them still in the vehicle, so we assisted in taking them out. One of them body was already lifeless,” another eyewitness recounted.

The eyewitness said that Downer, who was in the back seat of the car, sustained the brunt of the impact when the side of the car crashed into the post.

The wife of the deceased told this publication that her husband, a father of one and a cane harvester attached to the Albion Estate, had indicated on Saturday afternoon that he was going to a birthday party.

She later received a call about 01:30hrs informing her of the accident and for her to visit the hospital.

“When I arrived I saw my husband body in the back of the police van while the others were being looked after. I was just shocked and speechless,” the grieving wife said.

She noted that the driver, who hails from Fyrish, is a friend of her husband as they work together as cane harvesters. When this newspaper visited the scene, clothing and other articles belonging to the occupants were on the parapet and the car was still submerged in the trench.

The police are investigating the accident.

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