THE life of 67-YEAR-OLD Michael Carrington was snuffed out just before midnight Sunday when he was hit by a speeding RAV 4 vehicle, in the vicinity of the HD Sports Club and Bar ,on the Stanleytown  Public Road, in New Amsterdam, Berbice.
Moments before, ‘ Carro’, as he is fondly called by residents, had informed a shopkeeper that he had misplaced his identification card, but an officer attached to the  Ministry of Social Services, promised to give him the  three months of  backdated old age pension on Monday.
However, the dead man’s daughter, Kim, told this newspaper, that when a family member, armed with an authorization, went to the office on Princess Elizabeth Road to uplift the money, she was unable to do so.
However, recounting, Ms Carrington said, having retired to bed just before midnight her mobile phone rang, and she overheard the caller saying to her husband, ‘Tell her she father just get knock down’
Rushing in a taxi from the East Bank Berbice, the businesswoman, on arriving at the scene, saw her father’s body under a parked car.
“I bend under the vehicle touching my father,” the woman said. “I say Carrie, is dead you dead. His eyes were still open. I hold he head in my hands. I see he had a big hole at the back of his head and he was bleeding plenty. My sister brought a sheet, we wrapped he, then the police come. We then take him to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he was pronounced dead.”
According to an eyewitness, the driver of the car that struck down Carrington, who is a seaman, was seen earlier at the HD Sports Bar, and had moments before left the club driving a vehicle owned by a sibling of a senior police officer. Minutes later the seaman struck the pensioner was on the eastern parapet.
Onlookers claimed that the driver was under the influence of alcohol. The area in front of the bar was crowded with vehicles and persons attending a ‘back to school’ bash.
Persons living in close proximity to the accident said they did not hear the impact, as they are forced to use sleeping tablets as the loud music would keep them awake.
Meanwhile, the driver remains in custody at Central Police Station, as the investigations continue. A postmortem is scheduled for tomorrow.
Carrington is survived by many children.