Police in Berbice have been able to find the car which was involved in a hit and run accident at Number 55 Village Corentyne back in September and have also arrested the driver.
It was the man’s son-in-law who provided the information to the police almost three months after the accident which took the life of Trishan Sahai also called ‘Star’, 19, of Number 57 Village Corentyne and injured his 28-year-old friend Mooneshwar Jairam also called ‘Bodo’ of the same village.
Trishan Sahai dead man
Reports were made after the driver’s daughter and her husband encountered some marital problems, he told the police that it was his father-in-law who was involved in the September 19th hit and run accident at Number 55 Village in front of a bar. One of the persons police immediately arrested was the man’s wife Roshnie Iyube whose name the car is registered in. The woman said that she had no knowledge that her car was involved in a hit and run accident.
According to her, she was led to believe that her husband had hit an animal and it was not until six weeks after that the car was fixed. During that time it remained in the garage.
Back in September, a motor car with an unknown registration plate was reportedly speeding north along the Corentyne Highway when the driver struck down Sahai and Jairam who were walking across the Highway at Number 55 Village. Sahai was reportedly pitched several feet away from the point of impact while Jairam landed on top of motor a car, that was parked at the time of the accident. The windscreen and rear view mirror of the car were damaged in the process.
However, the speeding car did not stop. Both men were taken to the Skeldon Hospital where Sahai was pronounced dead and Jairam was transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Meanwhile, the dead man’s foster father Haroon Hamid says he is happy that the police have been able to crack the case.