The black series continues on our roads. Another young man lost his life on Wednesday 6 December on the Route Royale in Grand Gaube, near the Sir Gaëtan Duval kindergarten. Manish Narain, aged 19, who had been working as a waiter at the Paul et Virginie hotel in Grand Gaube for the past year, was killed instantly when the motorbike he was riding collided head-on with a Safety City pylon. This resident of Petit Raffray is the 126th fatality on our roads since the start of this year.
Since Sunday 3 December, a few fatal accidents have been recorded on our roads involving young drunk drivers or victims being killed. At 5.35am on Sunday 3 December, Marie Christina Vanessa Bonnelame, 38, and her husband Jean Lu Bonnelame, 54, were on a motorbike when they were hit head-on by a Kia Picanto. The couple, who live in Corps de Garde, Camp Levieux and Rose-Hill, were killed instantly. Jean Luc Bonnelame was riding his Delta motorbike on the Rivière Noire road in Médine on his way to Flic en Flac. He was to take his wife to the Hotel Anelia where she worked as a chef de partie. Neeven Payannandee, a 21-year-old resident of Bambous, fled the scene, leaving his car behind. He was found by police in the evening at the Wellkin clinic in Moka. The young man refused to take an alcohol test. After leaving the clinic on Wednesday morning 6 December, he was brought before the Bambous court on a provisional charge of manslaughter. As the police objected to his release on parole, he was placed in a police cell. In Paillote on the evening of Monday 4 December. Rithivik Rahomah, 23, a Sports Officer with the Ministry of Youth and Sport and a resident of Candos, was killed on his bicycle by a drunk driver. Faraaz Mohammed Domun, a 20-year-old entrepreneur from Phoenix, who was driving a BMW, tested positive for alcohol. He had one hundred and twenty-nine microgrammes of alcohol in his breath.
The tragic accident occurred at around 12.45am on Wednesday 6 December. Manish Narain was on his way home from work when he was killed. He had just left the grounds of the Paul et Virginie hotel where he was working. His 100cc Suzuki motorbike collided head-on with a Safe City pylon. The impact was so violent that his two-wheeled machine was seriously damaged. Police officers from Grand Gaube police station were immediately alerted and arrived at the scene of the accident.
An ambulance from the Emergency Medical Service was called to Grand Gaube. The doctor on board could only confirm that the young man was dead. His body was then taken to the morgue of the Dr A.G. Jeetoo Hospital in Port-Louis for an autopsy. The autopsy, conducted by Dr Prem Chamane, Principal Police Medical Officer, attributed the death to multiple injuries.
Manish Narain’s funeral is scheduled for Friday 8 December. His family are awaiting the arrival of his brother, who is abroad.
