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Lindener killed in CBR accident
The community of Cinderella City was plunged into mourning as 22-year-old Michael Fox, known as ‘Mikey’ or ‘Foxey’, was killed Friday night on the Amelia’s Ward Main Road.
The car that was involved in accident.
According to police reports Fox, of 9 Cinderella City, Amelia’s Ward, around 23:45 hrs was proceeding east on the northern side of the main access road in the vicinity of Toucan Drive at a fast rate when he collided with motorcar PTT 2372.
The driver of the car, 20-year-old Cleon Nicholas, a student of the Linden Technical Institute, said that he stopped at the junction and he observed the traffic rules but he saw nothing so he proceeded across the road heading into South Amelia’s Ward when he felt an impact.
He claimed that he stopped and when he exited the car he saw the motorcycle and the rider lying a distance off.
Both Fox and Nicholas were taken to the Linden Hospital Complex where Fox was pronounced dead on arrival and Nicholas was admitted for observation as he was crying for pains but he had no visible injuries.
Deborah Gooding said that she last saw her son around 20:00 hrs on Friday night when he told her that he was going out and that he would return later.
“But he never come home,” Fox’s older brother, Raphael Bourne, said. Bourne, who is visiting from the United States of America, said that his younger sibling was with him earlier.
“We were down the road and I tell he carry home the bike and catch a car and come back
The motorcycle involved in accident.
because I was driving.”
Bourne said that his brother didn’t come so he was going home. “When I reach the ward hill I got a call and the person ask me where I deh. I said ‘On the Ward Hill,’ and they tell me yuh lil buddy just get in an accident.”
“I was in the car coming up the Ward Hill; I was just seconds away from the accident- I was right behind him. When I got the message that my li’l brother just got hit, I couldn’t catch myself. When we drove up, I just saw him lying there on the road lifeless. I couldn’t think straight- just looking at him and looking at that bike, I almost lost it!
“We were going to hang out later in the night. I told him we weren’t going to use the bike, we were going to use car, because it was our first night out. I told him to take the bike home, catch a car and come down the road.”
Michael’s mother Debbie Gooding, who remains stoic, in the face of her tragic loss, said that she had retired to bed early as she was not feeling well. She said that she was later roused from her sleep by the sound of her son’s motor cycle coming into the yard.
However she said that she thought that it was her elder son Raphael who had returned home.
But the boy’s father told her that it was Michael that had returned, and later went out again.
“He had already come home- I don’t know why he had to go out back, because that is when the accident happened.”
Based on eyewitness reports, the car was making its way out of Toucan Drive, when the collision occurred.
“This guy in the car had stopped at the main road, but the traffic hadn’t quite cleared, when he moved off.
“It wasn’t really the motorcyclist fault. The only problem was that he was riding kinda fast,” an eyewitness declared.
After he slammed into the car, Fox reportedly flipped several times before finally landing on the road.
He suffered a broken neck and other injuries, reports indicate.
Michael leaves to mourn his parents, his two year old son and three siblings. He was the last of four children for his mother Debbie Gooding.
Earlier yesterday another incident, also involving a car and motor cycle, occurred at almost the exact location as last Friday night’s accident.
Fortunately however, no one was injured.
Over the years several accidents have occurred on this particular thoroughfare.
In 2011, on the 10th day of the tenth month, ten Lindeners tragically lost their lives after a minibus slammed into a parked lumber truck, a few yards from where Friday night’s accident occurred. He lamented, “Just November I came home and bury my daughter now is me lil buddy. There was nothing my buddy wanted that I didn’t give him. I am still here because I was setting up a business for him. Why? Why? That driver can’t tell me he didn’t see me buddy because that bike had bright lights. He had to see the lights. He just cross the road.”
As investigations continue police say the motorcycle was new and unregistered. Fox’s relatives intended registering the motorcycle in the new week.
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