21-year-old dies after car slams into parked tractor

A 21-year-old West Coast Berbice (WCB) man has died after the car which he was driving crashed into a parked tractor and trailer shortly after midnight on Monday. Dead is Ayinde Rogers of #22 Bel Air, WCB. According to police, Rogers was alone in the vehicle when, at about 12:05 Monday morning, he was proceeding along the Trafalgar Public Road, WCB, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice). Investigators believe he may have fallen asleep at the wheel, causing the car to veer off the roadway and collide with a parked tractor and trailer. The impact left the vehicle extensively damaged, with sections of the roof and body crushed and torn apart. The injured man was pulled from the wreckage by persons at the scene shortly before police arrived.

“Daddy, my brother dead”
Rogers’ father, Dave Rogers, said he was awakened by relatives and initially struggled to believe that his son had died. “He said, ‘Daddy, my brother dead, my brother dead.’ I said, I couldn’t believe it. I said, no way. I got a friend, a very good friend of mine. The man called me and said, ‘You got to go, you got to go and see what happened to your son.’ And I left and I go. I see my son lying on the ground, dead,” the grieving father said. Only hours before the crash, Rogers had returned from playing cricket on the Corentyne. Rogers was the captain of Achievers Cricket Club U-23 team and had represented Berbice at the U-19 level last year.

His mother, Charmayne White, said he had contacted her to ask what she had prepared to eat. She said that she packed the food for him before he left to spend time with friends. “The last time I saw him was after seven last evening, and I spoke with him because he went yesterday [Sunday] to play a cricket match on the Corentyne. When he came over back, he sent me a message and he said, ‘Mommy, what did you cook?’ And I said I cooked macaroni. And he said, ‘Can you dish out some food for me, put it inside of the box? I come in and I pick it up and go and hang out with some friends and come back.’ And that was it.” After receiving the telephone call, White travelled to the scene, where she saw her son lying motionless. She said it was too difficult for her to examine his injuries. The grieving mother remembered Rogers as a kind and loving person.  “He was kind. He was loving. There is no other way I can describe it,” she said. Police investigations into the fatal accident are continuing.