A 47-year-old employee of Aurora Gold Mines (AGM) located in Region Seven died yesterday morning when the truck he was driving collided with another while descending a hill. It is reported that the other driver is in a stable condition.
Dead is Joseph Licorish of West Watooka, Wismar, Linden who was the driver of an AGM-owned dump truck, # TL-001. Also involved in the incident was dump truck # TL-19 also owned by Aurora Gold Mines, and driven by 41-year-old Nigel Denny of Georgetown, a police report stated.
Enquiries revealed that Licorish was descending a hill, with a full load of stone, in the vicinity of an open pit mining area, when his truck collided with Denny’s, which was proceeding up the hill, also carrying a full load of stone.