ONE of the two Essequibo motorists involved in an accident on the Lama Sands Public Road on Sunday has succumbed.He is 28-year-old Lakeram Lall of Anna Regina Housing Scheme. He died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) at 08:30hrs yesterday, after being rushed to the city along with the other injured motorist, Ganesh Lalbacchan, on Monday.

Lakeram Lall, a father of five, is said to have suffered severe head injuries and was rushed into theatre to be operated on, but remained unconscious to the time of his death.

The survivor, Ganesh Lalbacchan, 36, a rice farmer and father of three, has suffered a broken right leg and right arm, along with injuries to his right ankle and instep. Speaking from his hospital bed yesterday, he recounted the accident, saying that at about 11:30 hrs on Sunday, he was negotiating a bend at the Essequibo Technical Institute (ETI) Chinese Lock area on his motor cycle when the accident happened.

Lalbacchan said another motorist proceeding from the opposite direction on his motor cycle crashed into him, and they were both knocked unconscious, and lay on the roadway for some time until they were picked up by the driver of a passing minibus, who rushed them both to the Suddie Hospital, where they were placed in the Intensive Care Unit until the following morning when they were transferred to the GPHC.

Lalbacchan’s wife, Drupattie Persaud, who along with other relatives travelled to Georgetown to help take care of her injured husband, though grieved over the injuries he has suffered, is thankful that he is alive. In the meantime, they are refraining from telling Lalbacchan that the other motor cyclist is dead.

“We cannot tell him now, until his condition is stabilized, because his pressure might go up, and we don’t want that,” Drupattie told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday.