By Elvin Croker
A YOUNG man lost his life on Thursday, while working as a porter on the trailer of a truck that belongs to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure Special Projects Unit.
The incident occurred just around 17:00hrs in the vicinity of C Field, South Sophia, Georgetown.

Dead is Sheldon Chance, 36, of 103 C Meadowbrook Gardens.
When Guyana Chronicle visited the scene, the mangled body of the porter was seen on the road, covered under a sheet.

An eyewitness, Gary Gibson, said he was standing at the side of the road when he observed the now dead man perched on the highest point of the truck.

He said the man got distracted by someone who was “hailing him up” and did not see a phone wire which was in the path of the moving truck.

This encounter, Gibson explained, caused the now dead man to lose balance since the wire caught his neck.

He then fell onto the floor of the trailer where his legs got caught in the fast moving rear wheels of the truck, ‘sucking’ his entire body under it.

“De wire hook he neck, he fall and den the wheel run over he three time,” Gibson said, adding that: “By de time I could a run fo tell de driver stop, de wheel de done run ovea he.”

Gibson said Chance was pushing up wires across the road that would hinder the free movement of the truck.

Family members cried uncontrollably on arrival at the scene, while a crowd ‘ballooned’, eager to get a glimpse of the dead man.

His brother, Shawn Chance, said the last time he heard from his brother was around 09:00 hrs on Thursday morning. At the time of his demise, the porter was working on the road construction project being undertaken in Sophia.

Shawn described his brother as a willing and hardworking person.
His family laid to rest their grandmother a week ago.

The body of Chance was taken to the Lyken Funeral Home and police have since launched an investigation into the matter.