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Motorcyclist killed on the spot after collision with mini bus
A mid morning accident yesterday claimed the life of a popular Tucville mechanic who
The minibus which was involved in the accident.
collided with a mini bus while riding a motorcycle.
According to reports the accident occurred at around 10:00 hours yesterday on the Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt.
As a result of the head on collision, 40 year-old, Patrice ‘Mitch’ Welcome of South Ruimveldt Gardens and of Critchlow Street, Tucville died instantly.
According to eyewitnesses, Welcome was riding a motorcycle heading east along Aubrey Barker Road, while minibus BNN 9334 was heading in a westerly direction.
The bus reportedly overtook another vehicle and ended up into the path of the oncoming motorcycle that Welcome was riding.
Eyewitnesses said that when the minibus struck Welcome, he was thrown some distance away from the point of impact. However when persons ran to the man’s assistance he appeared dead, as his skull was shattered.
“When we reach, is like he de dead already. All he brains went on the road and we know he de done dead. He didn’t even moving,” an eyewitness told this newspaper.
Another eyewitness told this publication that because of the injuries the man sustained, they were advised to cover his body.
However, for the brief period that the man’s body was uncovered, a large crowd gathered to get a glimpse of the gruesome site. Within
Dead 40 year-old Patrice Welcome
minutes of the accident, relatives turned up at the scene and many had to be consoled by others. Some of the man’s friends also turned up at the scene in disbelief.
“This man just lef we and say he going to work… and look how he end up,” one of the man’s friends lamented.
The bike which Welcome was riding at the time of the accident.
According to relatives, the man’s left his South Ruimveldt home for his mechanic shop in Tucville.
Welcome is survived by his five children.
The driver of the minibus has since been taken into police custody to assist with investigation.
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sad, dunno why peeple ride dem 2-wheel ting duh.
I know this man he fix my vehicle when i come to guyana sad to hear this R.I.P my friend jah knows best…hope they charge that bus driver for reckless driving….some people really drive crazy on Guyana road u have to be scared when you on guyana road with all of them mad driver in Gt they have there….sad story for real God bless you my friend…my conde…. goes out to his families at this time of greving wow sad for real….
These mini busses have taken so many lives, it time to pull them off the roads…Peter pay fu Paul and Paul pay fu all. The busses that the GoG uses for transportation at their own request…..why can’t these busses be used for regular public transportation or have the minibus coop. import busses like the TATA’s. These busses should only be used for private or short-drop purposes.The trips per day should also be limited. My heart goes out to children who have lost their father. May the cood Lord grand his grieving family,friends and loved ones, strenght and courage in this time of mourning
What is wrong with these mini bus drivers what the rush with them? Come on they need to get the max in prison for taking ppl lives stupidly and leaving families with out there love ones, this is out rageous and disgusted with these drivers…
Same thing make I don’t like motorbike. No room for error.
they need to lock up these mini bus drivers who continue to drive dangerously on the road and i dont mean no couple day for investigation……i mean they need to do some serious jail time for people lives……….guyanese people you need to wake up and start doing something about these dangerous drivers.
Sad to see all these young lives lost. My heart to the family.
Folks need to learn to drive and use the roads efficiently and safely.
so sad
It is sad that the value of a person’s life is the fare of another, this animal should NEVER see the light of day again. Unfortunately it’s going to come down to who family knows the highest. Sad Sad Sad. I’m going to miss my “friend”
Oh Patrice Patrice-RIP
Were you wearing a helmet?
Condolences to his family and friends.
wow I pray for his family how many more how many more
As citizens of this country we have got to take this into control. This is what the fifth motorcyclist to die this way. Motor bikes are a valid and useful means of transportation too and their riders are just as important as everybody else to somebody and a family. I should know my husband was killed October 8 by a car on the West Coast Berbice and the driver is only on $400,000 bail, while I have lost my husband and my 8 yr old son no longer has a husband.
da maxi taxi driver should get charged for murder
today you’re here…..today you’re somewhere else
a very good person and mechanic the only mechanic i had for over 15 years
my prayers go out to is family and friend,,,
my condolences to his family!….an because of another reckless an careless mini bus driver 5 more children will grow up without a father….so so sad!
The roads in Guyana were never built for top speeds and the powerful motor bikes and turbo cars wreck havoc as they traverse the poorly lit, narrow and unmarked roads! the mini-bus are conveyors of death and the Government would never try to stop this madness! why don’t they bring in the big buses? and work out schedules for everybody? even the donkey carts and music carts vie for supremacy….am so sorry for the victim’s family…
Its pity that the Mini buses get into a lot of accidents in Guyana, accident like this causes them to be harrased by the police.