A taxi driver died last evening on the Coverden, East Bank Demerara road, in front of Kaylee’s Service Station, after the car he was driving crashed into two others.
Dead is Dunstan Jacobs whose address is listed on his Guyana Revenue Authority car licence as 83 Sealy Street, Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara.
According to an eyewitness, sometime after 6:30pm Jacobs first clipped the front of motor car PKK 2304 before slamming head-on into Toyota Allion taxi HB 615 belonging to Timothy Ramdass of Lot 33 Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke Highway. He was pulled dead from his wrecked white Toyota Carina HB 9258 and was placed on the roadside where he remained for almost half an hour before police took him to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
“The white car (Jacobs) was coming down speeding and like he couldn’t control the car and he clip that man (PKK 2304) and then blam! into Tmax .
The speed alone you know that something tragic would have happened” said eyewitness Christon Darlton.
His version of the events was similar to that of Devon Saul, the driver of the first vehicle that Jacobs hit. Speaking with Stabroek News, the visibly shaken young man said that he had travelled all the way from Number 19 Village on the Corentyne to take his aunt to the airport for a return flight to the United States.
He said that as he was proceeding in the direction of the airport he noticed Jacob’s oncoming car speeding and swaying. He said that out of caution he began to drive slower and was pulling to the side of the road when Jacobs clipped the right front of his car, sending him skidding farther up the road.
He said he then heard the loud collision when Jacobs hit the airport taxi but he did not see what happened.
Persons who stopped at the scene of the accident remembered Jacobs as “sporting at Splashmins” and were in shock to know that after leaving the resort only minutes before he was now dead.
No relative was on the scene to identify the dead taxi driver and police took his particulars from his driver’s licence.
They also took statements from the drivers of the other two vehicles and informed that investigations are continuing.
