Dunstan Jacobs, also known as “Piggy,” the taxi-driver who died on Sunday evening when he crashed into two cars on the Coverden Public Road, was “very drunk” and wanted to drag race, according to his surviving passenger.
“We live in the same village, so I asked for a ride back home. When we left, he was half naked and very high from drinking all day. I got frighten when he started speeding and was swerving all over the road and even told his friend, who was following behind, that they will race 20/20 but I began praying and saying everything will be okay,” said Natoya Walcott, who sat in the back of Jacobs’ vehicle on their journey home. He never reached their East Coast location as Jacobs died on impact.
Eyewitness and the driver of one of the vehicles told Stabroek News that some time after 6.30 pm on Sunday, Jacobs, of Block 20 Nabacalis New Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara, first clipped the