00:00 He'd been a Bako operator most of his life, but in recent years, 62-year-old Ramuta Ramroop
00:08 did not work and lived here with his only child.
00:12 On Sunday afternoon, he decided to walk a short distance up the road as he often did,
00:18 to visit one of his sisters who lived nearby.
00:22 His son was inside sleeping and got a phone call with the most horrific news.
00:27 "He started to get bumps on his front over here, he fly up in the air and the next vehicle
00:31 from behind run over him."
00:35 It was around 3pm and Ramroop was hit by one vehicle, thrown some distance, then run over
00:43 and dragged further by another.
00:45 He ended up dying about 100 feet away from his home.
00:49 "When I went and see him, he was already dead and people didn't stop, I didn't see anybody.
01:03 They thought he's a car driver, he stopped but when he see what happened with my father,
01:07 he didn't even bother to come out, I believe he just drive off."
01:13 He says people often drive recklessly and speed on this open stretch along Rochor Douglas
01:20 Road in Barragpore.
01:22 He suggests that the community could benefit from the installation of speed humps.
01:27 "If I do that, I have no heart, I have no courage to stop and do nothing like that.
01:33 I just hope my father gets justice or something for his death because that was my right, there
01:39 is no way for a man to go and he's the only person I have."
01:42 Ramroop says he feels a sense of despair.
01:46 "My father is really the only person I had, there's only me and him in this house over
01:50 here and I would go to work and come back home and he would be the first person I would
01:55 look for, he's the only person I had to look for.
01:58 He wasn't the best person but I could assure about every time I go to work and I come back
02:04 home, drunk or sober, I'll surely get a meal and food from my father."
02:10 Simdi Raghuban Tikhasingh, TV6 News.
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