A 65-year-old driver of a Bounty outlet was taken into police custody after a biker was killed and a 15-year-old girl was injured in a crash at Farm, East Bank Demerara on Monday.
The accident reportedly occurred at around 12:15h. Dead is Errol Gonsalves, 50, of 79 Croal Street, Stabroek, Georgetown; while Harrissa Mohamed of Agricola, East Bank Demerara sustained injuries about her body, and has been admitted into the Georgetown public hospital. This newspaper understands that the girl was standing at the corner of the public road when she was struck down by the Bounty outlet vehicle.
Guyana Times International also understands that the dead man had just left the home of one of his closest friends, who had been killed in a car accident at Rahaman’s Park on Sunday morning.
In a release, police said investigations revealed that the driver of minibus BLL 939 was allegedly speeding along the roadway when he lost control of the vehicle and collided with the rear of the motorcycle before striking down the pedestrian.
Gonsalves and Mohamed were taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, and she was referred to the Georgetown Public Hospital. The driver of the minibus is in police custody assisting with investigations, police reported.
The mangled motorcycle which Gonsalves was riding
The police did not indicate the direction in which the vehicle involved in the accident was headed.
When this newspaper arrived at Gonsalves’s Croal Street home, most of his relatives declined to comment. However, one relative told this newspaper that they received a call at around 13:00h saying that Gonsalves was involved in a serious accident. The relative said that they were told that Gonsalves sustained a broken neck and head injuries.
The man was described by the relative as jovial, a sport fanatic, and hardworking.
Guyana Times International was told that Gonsalves was also a member of the Sonic Hunters Biker’s Club. The man leaves to mourn his three children, aged 23, 22 and 21.
Early Sunday morning, Gonsalves’s friend, Raymond Ally, and his friend Jermaine Frank were both killed after the car in which they were travelling plunged into a canal at Rahaman’s Park, Georgetown, in the vicinity of Banks DIH turn.
Reports reaching this newspaper indicate that, at around 01:15h, the friends were heading to a city nightclub when Ally, who was reportedly driving, lost control of the black car, PJJ 5942, causing it to spin a few times before ending in the canal.
This publication was told that the duo remained submerged for some 30 minutes before public-spirited citizens were able to pull them from the canal.
Their deaths are suspected to have been caused by drowning.
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