A youth is now dead after he and other motorcyclists collided along the Friendship, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Railway Embankment on Thursday evening.
Joshua Persaud, of Strathspey, ECD, succumbed to his injuries after the accident, in which he collided with a Police Constable who was riding the other motorcycle. Another motorcyclist was also involved in the collision.
Police spokesman Assistant Commissioner Royston Andries-Junor yesterday confirmed that an investigation is ongoing into the accident, which occurred around 6.10pm last Thursday.
Persaud, who suffered severe head injuries, was picked up by public-spirited citizens and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). He later succumbed around 7.30pm while receiving medical treatment.
At the time of the accident Persaud was the rider of CF 2481, which police say collided with motorcycle CJ 3521, the rider of which was identified as a 24-year-old Police Constable stationed in Region 4(c). Another motorcycle, CG 9899, was also involved in the crash but details of the rider, who allegedly fled the scene, had yet to be verified yesterday.
According to a police report, enquiries revealed that the constable was proceeding east along the northern side of the Railway Embankment. She stopped and indicated her intention to turn south into Friendship Access Road. It was at this point that police say she felt an impact to her motorcycle, which caused her to fall onto the roadway.
Upon getting up, she observed Persaud’s motorcycle down on the road. The other motorcycle, bearing registration number CG 9899, was lying next to it.
Persaud was then observed lying in an unconscious condition on the roadway.
Sharo Persaud, a brother of the dead man, yesterday told Sunday Stabroek that Joshua never regained consciousness. “…Since them carry he in deh, from Thursday to when all the time they go, all the time is one way he been deh,” Sharo said.
According to Sharo, although his brother was wearing a helmet a scan showed that he only suffered injury to his head in the accident. “From he neck go down, everything was perfect there but the head.
He had internal bleeding. Some fracture skull to the right side and so,” Sharo noted. “The lady (police constable) go fah cross over the road and by time he fah slow down now, he already hit she and flick over… He (Joshua) been deh pun the right a’way, so when the thing happen like he been can’t control he self like quick,” he added.
Joshua, who worked in a furniture store owned by his family, is survived by his wife and a one-year-old daughter.
