Father of 6 dies after motorcycle crashes into utility pole

A father of six is now dead after his motorcycle crashed into a utility pole Monday afternoon along the Vryheid Public Road West Canje, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).

Dead is Denson Edwards of High Dam, Mount Sinai popularly referred to as Angoy’s Avenue New Amsterdam, Berbice.
According to the police, Edwards was riding motorcycle, CK 995, at a fast rate, when he lost control of his motorcycle and collided with a utility pole.
The businessman was not wearing a safety helmet at the time.
As a result of the collision, he fell on the grass parapet, while the bike became submerged in a nearby trench.
The motorcyclist received injuries to his head and other part of his body. He was picked up in an unconscious condition by public-spirited citizens and was taken to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The now-dead man’s wife Ashanti Duke said he had left home to visit a nephew. Duke said while her husband was on the road, she had received a phone-call indicating that the man can uplift his small business cash grant on Tuesday.
Duke said she was eagerly waiting on her husband to return home to share with him the exciting news.
Instead, she was greeted with said news.
“So I ride and go up the road and when I reach I see a police vehicle with a crowd of people and I see my husband lie down on the ground. I asked if nobody couldn’t carry him to the hospital and they say that it is an accident and a police matter and so they can’t move the body. A good while after the fire ambulance come and they check him and say that he dead,” the grieving wife said.
According to Duke she observed that her husband was bleeding from his nostrils and mouth. Eyewitnesses related to her what had transpired and claimed that he swerved from a car which was in his lane and crashed. However, this claim could not be substantiated.
The now-widowed woman recalled that at the scene, persons were using their mobile devices to film the incident, rather than rendering assistance to the father of six. Investigations are ongoing. (G4)