Motorcyclist dies after crashing into parked truck

Motorcyclist Kelon Scott of Limlair Village, Corentyne, East Berbice is now dead after he lost control of the motorcycle he was riding along the public road at Auchlyne village on the Corentyne Coast at around 06:10h on Wednesday and it crashed into a lorry parked along the Corentyne Highway.
This incident occurred a short distance from where three persons had died several months ago after crashing into a parked lorry.
Reports are that the 24-year-old Scott was riding motorcycle CL 9964 at a fast rate of speed when he lost control of the vehicle and it crashed into motor lorry GLL 1193, which was parked on the roadway.
One of the first persons to arrive on the scene was Neil Sampson, who said that following the sound of the impact, he rushed outside and saw the rider and bike on the road.

“He was bleeding. He wasn’t dead as yet, because he was breathing and looking at me, but because his foot got caught within the handle of the motorbike, we had no access to get him out. We had to wait until the medical team come to get him out,” he explained.
Scott, who had worked as a labourer at the Albion Sugar Estate, was on his way to work when the accident occurred. His mother Annie Scott said he would normally leave home early. She said she had received a message a short while ago that her son had been involved in an accident and had died.
“They say that the motorbike slide and go straight into the parked truck,” the grieving mother revealed.
In August 2020, three persons, including a Police officer, lost their lives when the car in which they were travelling crashed into a lorry. That incident occurred about 300 metres away from Wednesday’s crash. Villagers say it is the same driver who parked the lorry on the road.
Last year, another motorcyclist was injured after crashing into that very lorry at Auchlyne.
“When I run out, I thought he (Scott) just hit his head, so I came back home for something to wrap his head; but when I went back to him, he already looked like he was dead. When I felt his pulse, there wasn’t anything there,” Arita Sampson said.
The first responder said had Scott’s feet not been entangled with the handle of the bike, they might have been able to rush him to the hospital for treatment.
Reports are that a part of the handle of the motorcycle had gone through Scott’s leg and was protruding a few inches on the other side.
According to Sampson, she has concerns over the parking of heavy-duty vehicles along the highway.
“I am very upset about that situation, because it happened before and they are doing nothing about it,” Sampson said.
Only last week, another motorcyclist died after crashing into a parked car on the Corentyne Highway.
However, that motorcyclist was said to have been under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash.
Annie Scott says her now-dead son had visited that accident scene, and after reaching home, had said he was going to stop riding – something his mother had been requesting.
“He take the key and throw it over the window, and two days after, he collect back the key and start riding again… He nearly reach up with an accident at Kildonan about two months ago, with a cow and a truck. He come home and tell me that he see his death and he cried,” the woman told this publication.
Police investigations are ongoing. (G4)