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Elderly motorcyclist killed after ‘jumping’ major road
Julian Alleyne, 73, died within minutes after a minibus struck him on Norton Street, Lodge, shortly after 8:00 hours yesterday.
The man, of Canje Pheasant Lane, South Ruimveldt, was riding his motorcycle north along Victor Street. He had just crossed a speed hump signaling that he was approaching a major road but he failed to stop when he reached Norton Street.
The minibus BNN 4990 driven by Hubert Verwayne, a former member of the Guyana Defence Force, who helped hunt the notorious Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins in the Timehri area, was heading in a westerly direction.
Julian Alleyne
Eyewitnesses said that the minibus driver swerved frantically, hit his brakes leaving a telltale skid mark on the road but could not avoid hitting Alleyne.
The impact sent Alleyne flying into a drain across the road while his motorcycle collided with a pedal cycle being ridden by a nurse, Veronica Douglas, 49. Douglas, the head of the Lodge Health Centre, sustained a broken ankle and other relatively minor injuries.
One resident outside whose home the accident occurred, said that his son had only moments earlier, left the home with the family car. He said that when he heard the impact he swore that his son was involved in an accident.
He said that he rushed outside and saw a woman on the ground near a lamp post at the corner of Norton and Victor Streets. He rushed to her aid, not realizing that he was passing a man more seriously injured. The man was partially buried in the muck-filled drain.
The man said that his son hailed him for help and together they began to drag Alleyne from the drain. He had sustained a puncture to his head from which cerebral fluid appeared to be oozing.
Passing motorists rushed the injured to the Georgetown Public Hospital where Alleyne was pronounced dead.
The crowd that gathered at the scene violently attacked Verwayne but the pacifiers in their midst intervened but not before the minibus driver’s shirt was torn.
Verwayne’s parents had provided him with support to buy the minibus after he left the army. He still owed on the bus and was in police custody up to late last night despite evidence that he had done nothing wrong.
The police said that they were conducting their investigations.
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