A GUYANESE who left with his family to take up residency in the United States of America as a security officer at the JFK International Airport was killed Sunday after the car he was driving flipped, crashed and burst into flames.

Dead is Dayanand Shamsundar, formerly of Newtown, Enmore, East Coast Demerara. He was reportedly driving near the intersection of Lefferts Boulevard and Pan-Am Road in Queens, when his SUV careened through a fence and into several parked cars in the John F. Kennedy International Airport parking lot.

It was reported by the New York Daily News that the guard, an employee of Allied Universal, smashed into several cars parked in a long-term parking lot before his vehicle flipped and burst into flames.

First responders worked to free the man from the burning wreckage. He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital in traumatic arrest, but could not be saved, officials said. No one else was injured as a result of the crash, authorities said.

The vehicle flipped as it struck the other cars and ultimately landed in section A11 of the lot, where it then caught fire, according to witnesses.

It was not immediately clear what caused the man to lose control of the vehicle.
A representative for Allied Universal did not immediately respond to a request for comment.