Newsday employee killed in car crash

NEWSDAY employee, 43-year-old Ramesh Seecharan, died in an accident on Tuesday night around 9 pm when his B-13 Sentra motor car overturned and he was flung from the vehicle. Seecharan had been a supervisor in the Lithography Department at Newsday from the company’s inception in 1993. For the last year he has been attached to the Press Room, and was on his way to his home in Rousillac when the accident occurred. Police reports stated that he was travelling south on the Solomon Hochoy Highway when, nearing the Macaulay Flyover, Gasparillo, Seecharan’s car skidded off the road flipped across the median and landed on the north-bound lane. Police said Seecharan was thrown out of the vehicle which eventually landed on top of him. He died on the spot. At the family home yesterday his wife Padmini said Seecharan’s sister, Ingrid Sammy, was travelling in a car on the highway and saw the accident, but was unaware that her brother was involved.

Padmini first learned of her husband’s death when three policemen came to the house around 11:30 pm. “They told me he had been in a bad accident.”  Padmini, 36, described him as a loving and hard working person. She said: “He was a family-oriented person. Whatever he did he gave of his best.” Seecharan was the father of three children —Lauren, 19, Nicholas, 13 and Dillon, 11. Padmini said she and her husband had planned to have a Hindu prayer service to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary next month. She described him as “her best friend, the one person she could talk to about anything.” She said Seecharan worked long hours, many occasions at great expense to his family life. Newsday’s Executive chairman and editor-in-chief Therese Mills yesterday expressed the sadness of management and staff at his passing and extended condolonces to Padmini and family. The autopsy revealed that Seecharan suffered a broken neck and a fractured skull in the accident. Sgt Maurice of the St Margaret’s Police Station is conducting investigations.