A 26-year-old construction worker is now dead after a motor pickup owned by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) crashed into him on Monday night while he was working along the Montrose Public Road, East Coast Demerara.

Dead is Daniel McCalmon of West La Penitence, Georgetown.
According to a police release, the accident occurred at about 22:05 hours Monday night and involved Motor Pickup #PAD 1720, owned by NIS, and driven by Dwayne Williams, a 44-year-old driver of Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

“Enquiries disclosed that the NIS Pick-Up was proceeding West on the southern carriageway of Montrose Public Road at a fast rate and whilst in the process of negotiating a left turn, the driver lost control of the vehicle and collided with the centre median of the road. As a result, the vehicle ended up on the northern carriageway and collided with the pedestrian (Mc Calmon), who was doing roadwork alongside the northern carriageway,” the release said.

The pickup vehicle dragged Mc Calmon on the northern carriageway and, in the process, collided with another pickup with registration GMM 8060, which was driven by an 80-year-old man and was proceeding East on the northern driving lane.
Because of this additional collision, both vehicles received extensive damage and then came to a halt. McCalmon was pinned under pickup #PAD 1720.

McCalmon was picked up in an unconscious condition by public-spirited citizens and placed into a vehicle which took him to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was seen and examined by a doctor, who pronounced him dead on arrival.

The body was later escorted to the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, awaiting a post-mortem examination.
A breathalyser test was conducted on Williams, the driver of Motor Pick-Up #PAD 1720 which showed readings of .068 and .071 micrograms respectively.
He remains in police custody, assisting with the ongoing investigation.