A Russian national was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre last evening following a motorcycle accident on the Farm Public Road on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD).
Dead is 51-year-old Oleg Veidnar, who lived at Lot 1090, Sixteenth Street, Back Half, Diamond Housing Scheme, EBD. According to reports, Veidnar was riding his motorcycle, a CBR bearing registration CF 2823, along the public road when he lost control of the bike while in the vicinity of the Farm Masjid. Persons at the masjid told Stabroek News that they were praying when they heard a loud screeching sound on the nearby public road, sometime around 5:45 pm yesterday. Veidnar purchased the bike about two months ago.
A resident in the area related that the road was wet at the time as it had been raining earlier in the afternoon and he noted that the Russian may