A Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo man was killed in a motorbike crash on Thursday night.
Police said that they are investigating the crash that occurred at Orangestein, East Bank Essequibo, where Bishram Singh, 30, lost his life. Singh was the pillion rider when the accident occurred.
According to the police, at around 11:15pm, Ashram Tiwari, 26, of Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, was driving motor-cycle CD 8250 with Singh as the pillion rider, when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed.
Both men were taken to the Leonora Cottage Hospital, where Singh was pronounced dead on arrival. Tiwari was referred to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where he has been admitted a patient, police added.
When Stabroek News visited the GPH late yesterday afternoon, Tiwari was in the Male Surgical Ward nursing injuries to his face and a broken leg. He related that the doctors are monitoring his condition to see if he has head injuries. According to him, he and Singh, who was his friend, were on their way to Parika at the deceased’s mechanic shop to fix the bike they were on when the incident occurred. He is also claiming that Singh was the one riding the bike, while he [Tiwari] was the pillion-rider.
A friend of the two men, however, related to this newspaper that Singh was in fact the pillion-rider, as he knows not how to ride a motorcycle.
