A 22-year-old member of the Community Policing Group (CPG) lost his life on Sunday evening after the motorcycle he was riding collided with a parked vehicle along the Crabwood Creek Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.
The deceased has been identified as Vinode Deo of Lot 126 Grant 1805, Crabwood Creek.
According to reports, the accident occurred at approximately 18:00 hrs when Deo was travelling along the roadway and reportedly crashed into an abandoned Tapir vehicle that had been left parked at the roadside.
As a result of the collision, the young motorcyclist sustained severe injuries.
He was rushed to the Number 75 Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead while receiving treatment.
Speaking with Ignite News, Deo’s mother, Shavnie Motiram, said that just hours before the fatal accident, she had contacted her son and asked him to return home, as she often did in the evenings.
“Normally in the afternoon, he would be by the street corner with his friends, and I would call him to come home, especially when I have to go to work. I called him and he told me he was coming home. Afterward, I went up the road and then I received a phone call saying that something was wrong with him,” she recounted.
Motiram said the initial information she received was unclear, with persons informing her that there had been an accident on the road.
“While I was on my way to the hospital, they called and told me my son had passed away. I said no. When I reached there, I started crying out, and the doctors tried to calm me. Then they told me he was no more,” the grieving mother said.
She noted that she later learned her son had crashed into an old Tapir vehicle that had been parked at the roadside.
“People should really move those old things and sell the parts or send them to the scrap iron company or something,” she said.
Motiram described her son as a loving, hardworking and jovial young man who had dreams and ambitions for the future.
“Morning time when I wake up, he hugged me and I tell him he getting big, he has to get married. He said he can’t marry yet because he has to get a brand-new motorcycle and a brand-new car first; next year he would get married,” she recalled. “He was a jovial person. He had friends everywhere. He didn’t like to see garbage around. He liked to keep the home clean.”
The distraught mother also spoke of the close bond her son shared with family members.
“He was very close to his aunt and uncle who live right here. Any little thing, he would come and share it with them.”
The circumstances surrounding the fatal accident are under investigation.
