A trucker is charged with causing death by dangerous driving
Dying: Murvey Madhoo.
Kaieteur News – A 34-year-old truck driver on Monday was placed on $ 300,000 bail after being charged with causing death by dangerous driving.
The defendant, Troy Van Lewin, of Lot 1159 Yarrowkabra Village, Soesdyke / Linden Highway, appeared in Providence Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Judy Latchman to answer the charge.
Troy pleaded not guilty to a charge, which, on Feb. 20, at Dora Public Road, Soesdyke / Linden Highway, allegedly drove a GXX 2653 motor truck in a dangerous manner to the public, causing the death of 60-year-old Murvey Madhoo.
According to previous reports, the accident that took the life of a father of two happened sometime around 20:00 hours on the Dora Public Road, Soesdyke / Linden Highway.
The GRR 4627 motorsport was reported parked on the west side of the road with a mechanical problem while Madhoo and Sherwin Rhodius were transferring goods to another elevator parked just behind. Eyewitnesses told police they had seen the truck traveling north on the west side of the road quickly, when it lost control and collided with the right side of the front of the pickup. That vehicle slammed into Madhoo and Rhodius who were standing between the two elevators.
As a result of the collision, both men fell on the road, where they sustained injuries to their bodies. In a video seen by this publication, the two men were seen lying on the road, one of them shouting with pain. People were heard in the background, told to relax, and that help was coming. A man who witnessed the crash in the video, noted that he had not finished putting wheels on one of the pickups for too long and that he was across the road, when he saw the truck entering the elevators.
The businessman was picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Rhodius was taken to Linden Public Hospital, where he was admitted and is in critical condition. The driver of the truck was subjected to breathing test but was found to be below the legal limit. Madhoo’s body is in the GPHC mortuary where a post mortem examination is due.