By Joseph Allen
A mother who just lost her son in a fiery car accident says that “faith” is all that she has now to hold on to.
Her son, 30-year-old Fredrick Frazer of Huntley, Mahaicony, along with his friend Shelroy McAlister, a 43-year-old of Airy Hall Mahaicony, and driver of motorcar PAB 8723 died together shortly after midnight.
According to a police report, at about 00:30 hours yesterday morning Frazer and McAlister, both construction workers, were driving along the Dundee Public Road, in Mahaicony when tragedy struck.
At the time, the car they were in was proceeding west along the road at a fast rate when the driver lost control of it while negotiating a turn and collided with a GPL pole and a concrete fence.
As a result of the collision, the vehicle burst into flames. The two men were not able to exit the burning car.
A call was made to the Guyana Fire Service and a fire tender from Mahaica Fire Station immediately responded to the scene. After the fire was put out, the two were taken out of the vehicle and transported to the Mahaicony Public Hospital where they were both pronounced dead on arrival
The Sunday Stabroek visited the two families who recounted what they heard had happened and what the loss would mean for them.
Yvette Frazer, the mother of the deceased, Fredrick Frazer, said that just about 1am she was told by a man that her son had been involved in an accident and some two hours after she was told by her sister that her son had died.
“I try to get faith, right. I just try to get faith. Faith I try to get. Well, I lose him, I can’t do anything about it. I have to get faith. I know he will not be around, so to me now, I have to try to get faith to keep up.”
The grief-stricken mother recalled that just a day before the death of her son, he had promised to set things right for her.
“He tells me ‘My mother, I don’t want nothing wrong with you. I’m going to put you right.’ That’s the last thing he told me right before he died”
The man was the only person living with his mother and took care of her.
Now looking ahead, Frazer said that all she wants is for the memories of his death to go away.
She described her boy as an easy person, who stayed away from trouble.
“He easy. He doesn’t trouble anybody. He does not fight; he doesn’t trouble anybody. He easy. He doesn’t be in any problem no fight or nothing he doesn’t be in. From work to home. He might take a Malta or a beer but he comes home. My son is quiet.”
The bodies of the two men are at Bailey’s Funeral Home, awaiting a post-mortem examination.
