A  Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) foreman was propelled as high as a utility post, after being struck by a speeding car along the Number11 Farm roadway, a short distance from  his home, on Thursday morning. He was pronounced dead, minutes after at the New Amsterdam Hospital.Vickram Ramlakhan, moments ago had related to his wife, Kavita, to whom he had married for five years, that he was leaving for work.

But, the distraught young woman, recalled that her 26-year-old husband, was actually going to the Albion Estate dispensary, as he was on three days sick leave.
Recounting, she said: “He just left the house when I heard screaming coming from the neighbours, and instantly I knew my husband was hurt. After I heard the loud impact I just felt he was hit. I knew I had lost him.”
“However, by the time I ran to the scene, they had already taken him to the hospital. At the hospital, he was already dead by the time I got there. He looked as though he was asleep. He looked so much alive. I still believe that he is alive. ’

Reminiscing on their relationship, the young widow, who is childless and will be returning to her mother’s house, said her husband, who was an operator at the Albion Estate, had a quiet personality. “He was not a talker.”
Meanwhile, eyewitness Nankumar Baijnauth called Mangre, aged 52, said it was just after 06:30hrs when he  was exiting a village shop having gone there to purchase kerosene, when he saw the motor car PRR 9655 hit Vickram  Ramlakhan.
Ramlakhan, he said, had moments ago left his home and was standing on the northern road shoulder when he was hit, being propelled upwards and falling about three rods away.
The witness said the driver was speeding behind another vehicle, and was attempting to overtake it, but was unsuccessful after he saw a bus approaching from the opposite direction.
Instead of remaining behind, the driver allegedly undertook the vehicle which was ahead of him. As a result of his decision, he swerved and collided with Ramlakhan who was standing on the parapet awaiting transportation.
“After the driver hit he, he collided with the lantern post before plunging into the trench. They had three person in the car. Dem hussle out with dem suitcase. I hear they were going to Springlands,” the witness recalled.
Meanwhile, 19-year-old Ricardo Ramcharran Approo, the alleged driver, remains in police custody as investigations continue.

(By June Bailey Van-Keric)