An 11-year-old youth of La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast, Demerara, became the latest road fatality when he was killed while attempting to get off a truck on the LBI Estate Road yesterday afternoon.

Dead is Ganesh Bheen of 9 Onion Field, LBI.

Eyewitnesses said about 16:20 h they saw the privately owned truck, which works with the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco), turning a corner and they saw the boy as he attempted to jump from it.

Bheen fell and was pinned between the a Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) utility pole and the truck.

Dead 11-year-old Ganesh Bheen

The driver, Renick Geoffrey, 64, of Victoria, East Coast Demerara, said he heard a resident shouting for him to stop. He got out and saw the child caught between the truck and the pole. He said he did not know that the boy was on the vehicle.

The boy died en route to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Residents told the Chronicle that the boy was seen playing in the truck when it was parked at the Guysuco pay office minutes before the accident, just a few yards away.

Reports said the child would normally play in the parked trucks there.

Mother of the deceased, Kachari Sahadeo, 49, said she was at work at Mon Repos when she received the news of her son's death.

The woman was inconsolable and lost consciousness several times at the scene of the accident yesterday, after she returned from the hospital.

Eyewitnesses said the child's hand were severed, and his legs were broken.
Bheen is survived by six siblings, his parents, and scores of relatives.

Monday, November 21, 2005