–in Berbice hit-and-run

A 19-year-old lost his life on Sunday evening, while his friend is battling for his at the New Amsterdam Hospital after being hit by a speeding car on the Number 55 Public Road.
Dead is Trishan Sahai, of Number 57 Village, East Berbice, while the condition of long-time friend and father of three, Mooneshwar Jairam, 28, has been listed as critical.
According to reports, the accident occurred around 20:20hrs while the two were standing on the parapet of the road having a gander at Number 55 Village.
Eyewitnesses say that the driver of the car which struck them down was driving so fast, that when he realised what he’d done, he immediately sped off.
The impact reportedly sent Jairam flying into a parked car a short distance away, smashing the windshield in the process, while Sahai was pitched several feet away.
They were both picked up and taken to the Skeldon Hospital where Jairam was pronounced dead on arrival. His friend, because of the severity of his injuries, was transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
One eyewitness said he was standing about two houses away when he saw this car coming with a speed.
“It was a white car,” the visibly upset man recalled. “This banna ain’t even had the nerve to even stop, bhai!

“He just come through with a speed, and pick up dem boys and drive off like nothing!”
The man said that after realising what had happened, a man from the village jumped in his car and went behind the errant driver. “The guy drive off behind him, but he couldn’t keep up; he lost him.
“The man just speed out like he just bu’n out de speed pon he car; but we did manage to see is a white car; an Allion, and get part of the number plate.”
When the Guyana Chronicle visited Sahai’s home, all his mother, Ms Banwattie Somwar could manage was:
“Meh son dead! Meh only son! What me go do without meh son!”
His sister recalled seeing him leaving home at around 17:30 hrs on Sunday. She, too, was unable to contain her emotions and come to grips with the fact that her brother has died.
Other family members gathered to lend their support, while others were busy preparing for the wake.
The family is pleading for justice, and asking that anyone with any information on the driver to kindly give it to the police.

They all described young Trishan as hardworking, willing and mannerly.
As one relative remarked, the man who hit both lads down and then sped off was nothing but “inhumane”, and should turn himself in to the police.
“Two families are suffering,” he said. “That bhai Jairam get li’l children. We hear he get over 30 stitches to his head; we only hope he recover well.
“And look at Trishan mommy! She can’t even talk! All the time she crying!
“This is really sad for everyone.”

Two Sundays ago, a pensioner was killed on the Tain Public Road after he was the struck down by one hit-and-run driver, only to be run over again, mere minutes later, by another car, the driver of which also fled the scene.
The police are yet to make a breakthrough in that case.