A 60-year-old security guard attached to the West Demerara Regional Hospital died on Sunday morning after he was struck down by a drunk driver on the Pouderoyen Public Road, West Bank Demerara (WBD).

Dead is Keith Redmond of Bagotville, WBD, who was returning home on his bicycle around 05:15hrs when a 37-year-old driver of motorcar PMM 1895 lost control of his vehicle and collided with the man from behind.

Redmond was flung some 30 feet away from the point of impact and his cycle was found about 15 feet away from his body.

The force of the hit caused the man’s body to smash into a nearby vending stall and land in the gutter, while the car crashed into the gate of a resident, damaging a utility post and uprooting a small tree along the way.

According to a police report, the motorcar driver resides in La Parfaite Harmonie, WBD and following a breathalyser test, his alcohol level was found to be “exceedingly above the legal limit”.

After the accident, both the cyclist and the driver of the motorcar were taken to the regional hospital where Redmond was pronounced dead on arrival, while the other is nursing a broken shoulder.

Relatives of the victim are demanding justice and alleged that this is not the first time the driver has caused a fatal road accident.

“This man was stink of alcohol in the hospital! It’s like the whole rum shop was on him. We’re trying to get some kind of justice, because I heard this guy killed two persons right on this same road and this guy still has a licence. If his licence was revoked, he wouldn’t have been able to kill my uncle and nobody else,” said niece of the deceased man Monica Redmond.

She pointed to where a bag of bread her uncle was carrying could still be seen in the drain.
Redmond was a father of five girls and would have celebrated his 15th wedding anniversary this month, had it not been for the accident, his wife told this newspaper.
“He was a loving husband, I had no problem with him, we were happily married so I will miss him a lot,” she said.

Redmond’s body is at the mortuary of the hospital awaiting a post-mortem, while the police reported that the driver is in custody assisting with the investigation.