AN EARLY morning accident involving two vehicles at Vryheid’s Lust Public Road, East Coast Demerara has left one dead and two others injured and hospitalized.

Dead: Ravi Singh

Dead is Ravi Singh, 31, also known as Robin or ‘Blacks’, of Montrose Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Hospital.

The two injured persons, who are now patients at the Georgetown Hospital, are Khemraj Singh 46, of Buxton Sideline Dam, and Manaj Singh 45, of Martyr’s Ville, all East Coast addresses.

The accident reportedly occurred at around 03:55h, and word is that the two vehicles involved have been ‘written off’.

Reports are that the deceased, who was driving a blue motor car,  PLL 9680, may have been speeding, which caused him to lose control and run smack dab into the other vehicle, a white motor van, PFF 2416, that was  heading in the opposite direction. The latter vehicle was being driven by Khemraj Singh with Manaj Singh as passenger, while the former was driven by the deceased.

According to one Radica (only name given), from whom the deceased was renting an apartment, he left home on Friday afternoon with her motorcar to visit relatives who had come in from overseas and were staying on the East Bank Demerara.

She said that he would normally use her car whenever he had to run an errand, since he is her husband’s nephew.

The ill-fated motorcar in which Ravi Singh was travelling and the minivan with which it collided

She said when he left home, he was wearing a gold band and chain, all of which are now missing, including the car keys, the keys to the apartment and his expensive cellular phone.  Radica said all she’s received are a pen and a lighter in a zip lock bag.

Noting that the deceased had been renting the apartment for the past year, Radica said that his wife, parents and other relatives, who all reside overseas, have been told of his demise and are making arrangements to come home to Guyana.

She told the Guyana Chronicle that she learnt of the accident when a resident of Montrose telephoned her at about 06:30h yesterday morning.
She visited the Sparendaam Police Station, where she saw her mangled motorcar and the minivan with which it collided.

Meanwhile, in a separate accident at Montrose, East Coast Demerara sometime Friday night, a motorcar reportedly slammed into the concrete fence of the Starlite Drive-in Cinema.

While no one can say for certain what happened to the driver and the occupants of the vehicle, it was still at the location yesterday afternoon.