| …CBR rider killed in East Canje accidentYet another road fatality has occurred in Berbice. This one came less than 24 hours after the county recorded its second and just over 48 hours of the first on Wednesday.DEAD: Ganesh ‘Max’ PersaudThis time, 23- year-old Ganesh ‘Max’ Persaud of 5 Strand,Cheap NFL Football Jerseys, New Amsterdam, lost his life after he was allegedly knocked off his CBR motorbike. The incident occurred around 17:10 hrs along the Canefield Public Road, East Canje on Friday.His best friend, Shaun Sattar, who was riding alongside Persaud into East Canje on another motorcycle to organize a fund- raising barbeque that was to have been held today, for his younger brother who needs a lot of money for surgery in Trinidad.Persaud was riding his late brother, Jarvis DeFreitas’s CBR CF 8751 “and he was riding in front of me and a hire car—a white 212—just come and pull in the corner and made a sudden U-Turn in front of Max and he [Max] knocked the car from the back door and fell off the bike”,Cheap NFL Jerseys, said Sattar.The boy added that Persaud’s two hands were broken as well as his right foot. “He was bleeding through his mouth”,Jerseys Wholesale, said the eyewitness. He was rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he died late Friday evening.Persaud was employed as a clerk with his uncle, prominent Attorney-at-Law, Charrandass Persaud.“We were like brothers,” said the friend. “We were doing a barbeque for his next brother,Cheap China Jerseys, Lakeram Persaud, on Sunday in Canefield, so that was what we were arranging and we didn’t get to make it… It will have to call off,” he stated.“He was a friendly person. He never passed anybody straight”, lamented Sattar.Persaud leaves to mourn his mother, a single parent, Jean Persaud, and his siblings. The driver of the hire car that allegedly hit Persaud is in police custody at the Reliance Police Station in Canje.One of Persaud’s brothers, 28- year- old Jarvis De Freitas died early September 13, 2012 in a gruesome accident at the Sheet Anchor,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, East Canje, Berbice, while drag racing with another biker.According to reports, De Freitas and some friends were drinking at a beer garden at Cumberland, East Canje when they decided to drag race. It was reported that the men took off at a terrific speed and De Freitas was unable to properly negotiate the treacherous Canje turn. His bike literally flew between two lamp posts, jumped a drain, crashed through a fence, and ripped apart a wooden shed before coming to rest aback of a Chinese Restaurant, with the body of the rider nearby.As if that toll was not enough on the family,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, it also should be noted that another of Persaud’s younger brothers, Lakeram Persaud was hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for multiple injuries he sustained during an accident on Valentine’s Day this year.The mangled CBR which Persaud was riding at the time of the accident.Lakeram was heading home on his motorcycle when he was struck down in front of the New Amsterdam Hospital. His mother started an appeal to the public to raise US$7,000 for Trinidad surgery on her son. |
