A 25-year-old motorcyclist named Burke (only name given), of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, and his pillion rider, Immigration Officer Mawava Chase, died on Saturday at about 21:15h after Burke lost control of the bike on which they travelling while negotiating the turn at Houston Public Road, Greater Georgetown and the vehicle crashed into a lamp post.
According to information reaching Guyana Times, the duo were with a group of friends at a J’ouvert party at Buxton, East Coast Demerara, and subsequently left to head up to the East Bank of Demerara. Eyewitnesses say they sped off from the traffic light at the intersection of Mandela Avenue and the East Bank Highway before Burke lost control of the bike.
They were travelling at such a rate of speed that Burke was left wrapped around the lamp post at the median of the road in an unconscious state, while Chase was left lying on the road with her eyes open, but being unable to speak or move.
After some time the ambulance arrived and transported Chase to the GPHC, while the Police subsequently picked up the unconscious man and rushed him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
About an hour later, Chase also succumbed while receiving medical attention.
