Unlicensed motorcyclist dies in Corentyne crash; 2 others injured

A 23-year-old unlicensed motorcyclist has died following a crash along the Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), Public Road. Dead is 23-year-old Eric Kissoon, a fisherman and construction worker of Number 72 Village. Those injured are the two pillion riders, Soohil Thakuradi, 13, also of Number 72 Village and a student of Tagore Memorial Secondary, and 28-year-old Goomraj Veerasammy, a fisherman of Number Naught Village, also on the Corentyne. The crash, which occurred at Number 69 Village, Corentyne, Berbice on Sunday afternoon while three men were riding a single motorcycle, also left two others injured. According to the police, Kissoon was riding motorcycle, CN 7562, with Thakuradi and Veerasammy as pillion riders.

Police said that the trio were proceeding south, allegedly at a fast rate of speed, when the driver lost control while negotiating a right bend and collided with a bridge rail, which resulted in the driver and pillion riders received injuries about their bodies. A statement from Police on Monday said that Kissoon was an unlicensed rider and neither he nor the pillion riders were wearing a safety helmet at the time of the crash. Kissoon was picked up in an unconscious state, and the pillion riders in a semi-conscious state and taken to the Number 75 Village Hospital. He succumbed to his injuries while receiving medical attention. Both Thakuradi and Veerasammy were subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) for further medical attention. Kissoon had reportedly left home shortly after 07:00h using his father’s electric bike. According to his mother, Camille Ragnauth, her son left to purchase an item from the village shop but never returned home. The crash occurred at about 15:30h. “He left with the motorbike that the man had to go to work with. After he was not coming, his father called him and tell him to send the e-bike with his nephew and then we hear that he borrow somebody’s motorbike to go and collect money from his boss-man that he work with and then we hear that he get a accident.” The mother of four, told this publication that Kissoon was her last child and the closest to her, explaining that Thakuradi was her son’s cousin who lived next door, but she did not know Veerasammy and had never seen him. Meanwhile, the now-dead man’s reputed wife, Rehana Davie Singh, related that after her husband left home she was engaged in domestic chores, but later learned that he had left the village shop and was at a location in the village.

“At around 2 O’clock I called him and he answered but from how he answered the phone I know that he was drinking. He tell me that he was on the road waiting on his boss-man go going collect his pay because he didn’t get pay Saturday. I didn’t know that he borrow somebody from by the shop motorbike and he go out to the front with it,” she said.
The owner of the motorcycle subsequently contacted his wife and related that he had been gone for quite a while with his motorcycle, and calls to his phone were unanswered.
According to the her, she went in search of Kissoon and her way, she received information indicating that her husband was involved in an accident and taken to the Number 75 Hospital.
According to Davie-Singh, Kissoon suffered injuries to his neck and fractures to one of his legs. She said she was also informed that he suffered broken ribs.
She noted that his pelvic area also seemed out of line as she looked at his body.
The couple had been living together for two months. Apart from his reputed wife, Kissoon leaves to mourn his parents and four siblings.