A PEDESTRIAN, 57-year-old Ralph De’Castro, is now dead after he was, on Saturday, struck down by a car on the Mon Repos Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD), at about 19:30hrs.

According to a release from the police, the accident involved motor vehicle PAD 7001, owned and driven by a 41-year-old female of Enmore, ECD; and De’Castro, now-deceased, of Mon Repos, ECD.

Enquiries disclosed that the driver of motor vehicle PAD 7001 was proceeding east along the northern driving lane of the northern carriageway when she allegedly saw a man suddenly walking from north to south across the road into the path of her vehicle.

On seeing that, she applied brakes, but the left side front of her vehicle collided with the pedestrian, who was flung onto the road surface and received injuries.

The pedestrian was picked up from the road in an unconscious state by public-spirited citizens and was escorted to Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where he was examined and pronounced dead. Police said investigations are ongoing.