TWENTY-THREE-year-old truck driver Budhram Jainaught of Lot 5 Unity, Parika, East Bank Essequibo lost his life on Friday morning when he crashed his father’s car, PMM 9055, into a trailer parked on the Greenwich Park public road, East Bank Essequibo.

His death has taken the 2016 road fatality figure to 102.

Police say the young man was reportedly on his way to patch a tyre for his father’s Canter truck when he swerved the vehicle he was driving to avoid hitting a female who was running across the public road. He then lost control of the car and the rear of the vehicle slammed into the back of a trailer that was parked on the roadway.

Public-spirited citizens rushed the young Jainaught to the Leonora Cottage Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A female passenger who was in the vehicle received minor injuries and was treated at the Leonora Cottage Hospital before being sent away.

The elder Jainaught told this publication, “If the trailer was not parked on the roadway, my son would have been alive. The rear of the car collided with the trailer; if it was not there, then he would have just been on the parapet next to the drain.”