– was allegedly riding on wrong side of the road, without lights

A SOESDYKE lad died on the spot Wednesday at about 18:45hrs, while allegedly riding his bicycle on the wrong side of the road without any lights, after he was struck by a speeding Georgetown/Timehri minibus at Yarrowkabra, Linden/Soesdyke Highway.Fifteen-year-old Robin Hernandez of Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara who was hit by the route 42 minibus was pitched a few feet away from point of impact, landing in the corner. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), according to the police.

A Yarrowkabra resident told the Guyana Chronicle that all she heard was “something mash a hard brakes and the glass start bruck up.” She said when she went out to see what was happening, she learnt that someone had been killed.

“I went and I see is Robin, I start feeling weak, I was trying to help but he did already dead, he always use to help when you ask him to do something. His family was also on the scene and cannot believe what happen, all they were saying is that they sent him to the shop,” the woman said.

The driver of the minibus is in police custody assisting with the ongoing investigations.

(By Asif Hakim)