Written by Leroy Smith
THIRTY-FIVE year old Gopaulram Dass, of 77 Tyman Street Better Hope North East Coast Demerara was killed after being struck by a car as he was leaving a night spot two villages from where he lived. He was struck on the Vryheid’s Lust Public Road, East Coast Demerara.

The man’s father Tullahram Dass told this newspaper yesterday afternoon that he was at home when he got a call at approximately 01.30 hours yesterday morning informing him that his son was involved in an accident.

Tullahram and his now dead son both worked together as barbers in Alberttown and would usually communicate often. He said that after receiving the call yesterday he arrived at the scene 10 minutes after but his son was not on the scene.
He said that the friends who were drinking with the man at the time of the accident rushed him to the hospital. They told relatives that the man was attempting to cross the road when the car came out of nowhere and slammed into the man.
This newspaper was told that after hitting the man the driver continued on his way but the impact caused his number plate to be separated from the vehicle and was retrieved by persons in the area who handed it over to the police. The vehicle number is PRR 4441.
According to the father of the dead man when he arrived at the Woodlands Hospital where the man’s friends had taken him he already appeared to be dead.

According those who were present when the accident occurred, Dass was in the process of crossing the road and was almost in the corner when he was hit by the vehicle and its driver refused to stop and render assistance to the victim.
They said that the man had moments ago telephoned his wife to inform her that he was on his way home and she reportedly got up from her bed and waited to open the door for the arrival of her husband.

According to relatives said that the fact that the man was sober enough to call his wife and speak in a normal manner with his wife before his death vindicates their point that the man was not drunk at the time he was hit by the vehicle.
The barber leaves to mourn his parents, wife, child and one sister. His father said that he has already given the police a statement in relation to the matter
Yesterday the police in a statement said the man was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.