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Drag racing victims drowned
– alcohol consumption detected during post mortem
Post mortems performed yesterday on drag-racing champion, Raymond Ally, and Jermaine Frank confirmed that the friends died from drowning after they were trapped in Ally’s submerged car.
The post mortems also revealed that the young men had consumed alcohol some time before the tragedy. Kaieteur News understands that Ally sustained fractures to the breastbone and ribs. Cause of death was given as drowning, compounded by blunt trauma to the chest.
In Frank’s case, cause of death was given as drowning compounded by blunt trauma to the head.
Dead: Jermaine Frank
Dead: Raymond Ally
Mud was detected in the victims’ lungs and stomachs, which showed that they were alive for some time in the vehicle.
A source said that there was also a noticeable smell of alcohol in the stomach contents on both men.
Close friends said that the men had attended a “nine-night” at Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara on Saturday night, and were heading for a city nightspot around 01:30 hrs on Sunday when they crashed.
According to reports, Ally was going around Rahaman’s Turn at high speed when he lost control of the vehicle. It veered off the roadway and overturned in the canal near National Hardware Limited.
Ally and Frank were trapped in the vehicle for some 30 minutes before rescuers managed to retrieve their bodies from the car.
Police have received reports that a taxi driver who was travelling behind Ally’s vehicle observed that the occupants were drag-racing with the driver of a white car.
But as they were negotiating Rahaman’s Turn, the car Ally and Frank were in ended up on the northern side of the roadway.
The vehicle then toppled into the canal in the vicinity of National Hardware Ltd.
The man in the white car reportedly exited his vehicle, went into the canal for a few minutes, and returned screaming. He then ran to his car and sped away. The taxi driver was unable to record the car’s licence number.
Another taxi driver told Kaieteur News that moments before the accident, the very car in which the men were in passed him at such high speed that his vehicle shook. Raymond Ally’s parents own the Gas And Go Filling Station at Friendship.
The eldest of three and his parents’ only son, Ally, 26, of Friendship, East Bank Demerara, graduated last year from the University of Guyana with a Degree in Business Management.
Persons in the sports fraternity described him as a rising star on the race-circuit. Some friends said that his actions that reportedly led to the tragedy were out of character.
Jermaine Frank, 21, also of Friendship, East Bank Demerara, was an employee of ECI Engineering and Construction Inc.
His father, Allan Frank, said that the young men had been close friends for about four years.
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