The police are on the hunt for the driver of motor pick up GNN 4363 who fled the scene after colliding with a pedestrian on John’s Port Mourant Public Road on Sunday evening.
The dead pedestrian has been identified as 29-year-old Deonarine Bisram of Rose Hall Town on the Corentyne.
The News Desk was told that the motor pickup was proceeding West along the Southern side of John’s Public Road allegedly at fast rate, while the pedestrian was walking heading East along the Northern side of the said road when the driver of the pickup lost control of the vehicle and collided with the pedestrian causing him to be flung west on the road surface.
According to information received, the pickup then collided with a bus shed on the northern side of the road after which it ended up in a drain nearby with damages. The driver immediately fled the scene and has not been located or contacted since.
However, the motionless pedestrian was picked up in a unconscious condition by public spirited citizen and taken to Port Mourant Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Investigations are ongoing.
