1 dead, 1 critical in Mibicuri 2-vehicle collision

A young security officer attached to the Sureway Security Service is now dead and another youth is battling for his life at the Georgetown Public Hospital following a head-on collision between two motorcycles along the Mibicuri main access road, Black Bush Polder (BBP) on Thursday.
Dead is 20-year-old Navindra “Brain” Budhu while the injured man has been identified as 23-year-old Marvin Narine, both of Mibicuri North, BBP, Corentyne, Berbice.
Police preliminary investigations revealed that on the day in question at about 17:30h, Narine was riding a motorcycle with trade plate JYT-2 and was in the process of overtaking a parked motor lorry when he collided head-on with Budhu, who was riding a motorcycle bearing registration number CK 6914.
Guyana Times understands that Narine has been using the trade-plated motorcycle for the past five months.

Nevertheless, following the collision, both young men sustained injuries to their bodies and were picked up and taken to the Mibicuri Hospital. Due to the severity of their injuries and the fact that both of them were unconscious, they were transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
There, they were treated and subsequently referred to the Georgetown Public Hospital where Budhu took his last breath on Friday morning while Narine was admitted in a critical condition.
However, at the home of the now-dead security officer, his uncle Jairam Budhu related that his nephew was on his way home from collecting his wages when the accident occurred.
He explained that moments before the accident, he had telephoned his nephew to find out his location since he wanted him to take his vehicle to the car wash. His intention was to hand over the car to him and he would have taken the motorcycle home.

As such, he drove to the head of the street to wait on the young man but whilst doing so, he heard a loud sound a short distance from where he was. As he looked up the road, he saw a crowd had gathered and it was then he decided to enquire.
There, he was greeted by his nephew and the other young man covered in blood. He immediately assisted residents to put them in a vehicle and rushed them to the hospital.
Meanwhile, the injured man’s father, Narine (only name given) told Guyana Times that his son, who worked as a labourer, had just returned home from work when he asked him to run an errand.
“He was changing his motorbike oil when I asked him to go and buy cassava so that we could make soup. He bathe and he go out and about half an hour after I hear that he at the hospital, he get an accident,” the man revealed.
Eyewitnesses reported that the lorry was parked and the driver had exited to go into a shop when the accident occurred.
Budhu and Narine, according to reports, suffered from a fractured skull and broken legs. Both motorcyclists were reportedly wearing helmets at the time of the crash.
Meanwhile, Budhu’s uncle referred to the now-dead man as a very good person.
“He is a very [good] boy to the family and also I would miss Brian because anything I can get him to do even to go and wash my vehicle. If I tell him that I get an airport trip and ask him to go and collect the people he might make a grumble but he would still do it. I will miss him,” he said in a tearful voice while adding that he was liked in the community and never smoked.
“Up to this morning (Friday), people saying that he never make any problem and always stopped and gaffing with them. Sometimes he would drink a beer but he would drink it at home,” the uncle related.
Budhu leaves to mourn his parents, three sisters, and other relatives. Investigations are continuing. (Andrew Carmichael)