By INDARJIT SEURAJ Friday, November 6 2009

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Richard Bissoon with his daughter Karina...

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RICHARD BISSOON, a brand manager at LJ Williams Ltd, was a dedicated worker, weeping relatives said yesterday. It was this passion which cost him his life after he died in a car crash during the early morning hours.

Bissoon, 35, of Darling Street in Chaguanas died instantly when his vehicle crashed into a light pole off the Uriah Butler Highway in Guayamare.

His blue Subaru Impreza WRX was badly mangled with the victim’s relatives saying they believe he fell asleep at the steering wheel at about 1 am. At his home yesterday, his wife Cindy was too distraught to speak.

“He was very hard working and he would always go beyond the call of duty,” Bissoon’s sister Patricia Bissoon-Maraj said. “He didn’t rest at all. If they called him out to work Saturday and Sunday, he would go,” his mother-in-law Mona Hassarath said.

Bissoon was working late over the past few days on a promotion drive with foreign businessmen. The tiredness, Hassarath said, got the better of him and he fell asleep with his car veering off the highway and crashing into a light pole.

“Everybody who knew Richard loved him. His wife and daughter Karina meant the world to him,” Hassarath said.

“The saddest thing is that he is leaving his five-year-old daughter who was very close to him,” she added.

Bissoon was the fourth person to be killed in a vehicular accident yesterday and his death took place at about the same time three men lost their lives when the ten-wheel truck they were in, crashed into the east-bound temporary Bailey bridge in Macoya. The road fatality figure for the year now stands at 173.