Lorry driver gets $400k bail over Triumph fatal accident

Dion Adam Richards, 25, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving when he appeared before Magistrate Alisha George at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Courts on Friday.
This accused pleaded not guilty to the charge which alleged that on November 8, he drove motor lorry GAB 8067 in a manner dangerous to the public, thereby causing the death of 32-year-old Curtly Christopher Cambridge.

Richards, a father of three, of Section B Block X Great Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD), was represented by Attorney-at-Law Bernard Da Silva.
He was granted bail in the sum of $400,000 by Magistrate George, along with instructions to report to the Sparendaam Police Station on the 15th of each month pending the hearing and determination of his trial. The matter has been adjourned until January 15, 2024.
Cambridge of Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown, is alleged to have ridden his motorcycle into the path of a lorry on the railway embankment at Triumph, East Coast Demerara (ECD). The accident occurred at about 1:15h.
At the time of the accident, motor lorry GAB 8067, owned by Build Smart Construction, was being driven by Richards. He told investigators that he was proceeding west along the embankment road, and was in the process of turning north into Agriculture Road when he saw Cambridge on motorcycle CK 1975, proceeding east along the northern side of the road at a fast rate.

As a result, the now dead man drove into the back of the lorry as it was turning.
The motorcyclist sustained head injuries as a result of the collision, and medical personnel in an ambulance service that was summoned pronounced him dead at the scene of the accident.
A breathalyser test conducted on the lorry driver detected no trace of alcohol in his system. Dion Adam Richards, 25, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving when he appeared before Magistrate Alisha George at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Courts on Friday.
This accused pleaded not guilty to the charge which alleged that on November 8, he drove motor lorry GAB 8067 in a manner dangerous to the public, thereby causing the death of 32-year-old Curtly Christopher Cambridge.
Richards, a father of three, of Section B Block X Great Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD), was represented by Attorney-at-Law Bernard Da Silva.
He was granted bail in the sum of $400,000 by Magistrate George, along with instructions to report to the Sparendaam Police Station on the 15th of each month pending the hearing and determination of his trial. The matter has been adjourned until January 15, 2024.
Cambridge of Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown, is alleged to have ridden his motorcycle into the path of a lorry on the railway embankment at Triumph, East Coast Demerara (ECD). The accident occurred at about 1:15h.
At the time of the accident, motor lorry GAB 8067, owned by Build Smart Construction, was being driven by Richards. He told investigators that he was proceeding west along the embankment road, and was in the process of turning north into Agriculture Road when he saw Cambridge on motorcycle CK 1975, proceeding east along the northern side of the road at a fast rate.
As a result, the now dead man drove into the back of the lorry as it was turning.
The motorcyclist sustained head injuries as a result of the collision, and medical personnel in an ambulance service that was summoned pronounced him dead at the scene of the accident.
A breathalyser test conducted on the lorry driver detected no trace of alcohol in his system.