In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to the death of 63-year-old Mathu­ra Ram­lo­gan, who was crushed by a truck near his Pe­nal home on Sat­ur­day, as he tried to help a pass­ing mo­torist.

The 50-year-old dri­ver, the pro­pri­etor of a con­struc­tion com­pa­ny, was trans­port­ing gal­va­nize in his white Mit­subishi truck to a tem­ple which was un­der con­struc­tion. While dri­ving up a steep hill along Old Bun­see Trace around 2 pm, sev­er­al sheets of gal­va­nize fell off the tray of the truck on the road near Ram­lo­gan’s home.

The dri­ver stopped the truck, pulled up the hand­brakes, placed the gears in neu­tral and ex­it­ed the truck.

Ram­lo­gan came out of his home to help. How­ev­er, the truck rolled back­wards, pinned him un­der the rear right wheel, then dragged his body for about 30 feet be­fore it rolled over him and stopped on a flat area.

A dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer viewed Ram­lo­gan’s body and or­dered its re­moval pend­ing a post-mortem at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the fam­i­ly yes­ter­day, they de­clined com­ment. —Sascha Wil­son