25-year-old pillion rider was killed after he was flung off a motorcycle at Rosignol around 11.30 pm and an 18-year-old died when he lost control of a car at Hampshire, Corentyne around 10 pm on Sunday.
Stabroek News learnt that both accidents occurred as a result of speeding. Reports are that Olsen ‘Fine Change’ Gomes was being transported by his friend, 24-year-old Pooran “Andy” Persaud on his motorcycle CC 8062 when it crashed into the sidewalk. Gomes, a welder, was flung off the motorcycle on impact and hit his head on a pole.
And in the other accident, 18-year-old Chandrayan Nadesan called “Buns” or “Denver” of Cloud Nine Street, Hampshire was killed after the white car he was driving, PJJ 3987, plunged into a trench at Clifton Settlement.
Eyewitnesses said Nadesan, a student of the Corentyne Comprehensive, was “racing” on the road with another car when he met his demise. They also said that the teen was “pitched out of the car and he hit his head on a [piece of] wood.”
According to a police press release, Nadesan who was not a licensed driver, allegedly took the car without the owner’s consent and lost control of it. The release, which stated the youth’s first name as “Devindra”, said public-spirited persons took him to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
When this newspaper visited his home yesterday, relatives were reluctant to divulge information. He is survived by his mother, two siblings and other relatives.
Meanwhile Gomes’s relatives told this newspaper that his brains were scattered all over the road and he died instantly.
Persaud of Murphy Dam, Rosignol who suffered minor injuries to his forehead and other parts of his body was rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital; relatives later took him to a city hospital. Sources at the Fort Wellington Hospital said that when he left there his condition was stable.
According to a police press release, Persaud “struck a metal post along the roadway” and both men received injuries and were taken to the hospital. The police said Gomes, who was not wearing a safety helmet at the time, was pronounced dead on arrival.
Gomes’s father, Desmond Gomes of Welcome Street, Rosignol told Stabroek News that he received a telephone call about the accident and was at the scene within 15 minutes.
He said his son’s body was still lying on the road when he got there. The man said his son had in fact been wearing a helmet and that he saw it in a nearby drain.
Gomes said his son, who had been living with his girlfriend at Edward Street for almost one year, had gone out with Persaud.
They were heading in the direction of the stelling at the time of the accident, which occurred in front of the New Building Society Limited branch office.
Gomes, the last of four children leaves to mourn his father; his mother Donna Gomes and three siblings.
(Shabna Ullah and Adrian Smith)