The family of a 32-year-old motorcyclist of Lot 1578 Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt who died yesterday on the Railway Embankment Road at Triumph is calling for the trucking company to accept full responsibility for what happened.
A police report stated that the accident involved Curtly Cambridge, an excavator operator who was the owner and rider of motorcycle, CK 1795, and Dion Richard, a 25-year-old from Diamond, East Bank Demerara, who was the driver of a truck, GAB 8067, which is owned by Build Smart Construction.
The truck driver told investigators that he was proceeding west along the embankment road, and then turned north into Agriculture Road. He claimed that the motorcyclist was proceeding east along the Railway Embankment Road at a fast rate and drove into the back of the truck as it was negotiating the turn.
As a result of the collision, the motorcyclist fell and suffered suspected head injuries. An ambulance was summoned and emergency medical technicians pronounced Cambridge dead at the scene.
According to Cambridge’s elder sister, her brother was instructed to transport an item to one of the construction companies he works for at Providence and was on his way to Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara, when he got into the accident.
She added that the family is not taking the accident lightly and is seeking justice in the matter, even if they have to take private legal action.
“We are not letting this go lightly. We want justice because the drivers now doing a set of stupidness on the road ways. The employer looks like they are not asking the driver their experience, they just giving them the truck to drive. They are not doing any background checks on them [drivers], they just employing them just like that. The police need to charge the owner of the truck not just in favour of the driver because the people the company employing to drive the truck, they are not doing any back ground check on them. The company need to take responsibility for this. I will be taking a lawyer”, she said.
She insisted that Cambridge was a careful rider and from what eyewitnesses saw, he wasn’t speeding.
A breathalyzer test was conducted on the truck driver but no trace of alcohol was found. He is currently in police custody.
