Corentyne teen dies after crashing into utility pole

A teenage motorcyclist is now dead after he crashed into a utility pole at Bushlot Farm, Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) in the wee hours of Monday.

Dead is 17-year-old Karan Dhuman, a painter of School Street Bushlot Village, Corentyne.
Police stated that the young man was riding a motorcycle bearing registration number, CL 9018 along the Bushlot/Farm Public Road at a fast rate of speed when he lost control of the bike and collided with a utility pole.
As a result of the collision, he was flung off of his motorcycle and slammed into the said pole causing him to sustain injuries. He was picked up in an unconscious condition and taken to Port Mourant Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

According to the teen’s wife, Nandani Seeraj, they returned home on Sunday evening at about 19:00h but he insisted on going back on the road to witness the burning of the Holika.
Before leaving home, he was told the Holika had already finished burning but he told her that a friend called and asked him to reach them in the village. The young wife noted that she telephoned him at about 20:00h and he asked her to give him up to 23:30h.
At 23:30h, she called again but Dhuman asked for an extension up to midnight. She told the Guyana Times that it was not long after, the family received news that her husband was involved in an accident and was lying on the roadway. At the time of the accident, the young man was not wearing a safety helmet.
In addition, his mother, Minawattie Rampersaud stated that when they arrived at the scene which was about 100 metres away from their home, they saw her son lying motionless on the roadway. Whilst there, they were advised not to move the body until the police arrived at the scene.
Seeraj further explained that the doctor at the hospital told her that her son had been lying dead for about two hours. Dhuman had the bike for just over one year.
According to his mother, she was reluctant to purchase it for him but was persuaded by a relative to do so. “He does work and bring his money and give me and tell me what to put up for him. Yesterday (Sunday) before he go and play cricket he tell me that his license come and if I would buy a car now for him and I tell him yes. He tell me that he want a new Allion car. I never know that is a new casket I would have to put him in now…”
The young man leaves to mourn his wife, mother and three siblings.