Guyanese dies in Suriname crash - American passenger also killed

Guyanese dies in Suriname crash – American passenger also killed

Nov 09, 2018 News

Dead: 74-year-old Patrick Tulsie

An accident that occurred yesterday afternoon in the district of Saramacca, Suriname, some one hour drive from Paramaribo, has left two men dead, one of them Guyanese, after the car they were traveling in, with Guyana registration plates, PVV 3080, went head-on into a truck.
Seventy-four year-old Patrick Tulsie of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, and 78-year-old Tim Manning, an American who is said to have been visiting from New York, were said to have died instantly after the accident.
DAGonline a Surinamese media outlet, first broke news of the fatal accident, and showed photos of the gruesome scene.
Initial reports reaching DAGonline indicated that a blue Toyota Wish motorcar with Guyana license plates was heading towards Paramaribo at a fast rate of speed, when the vehicle began to swerve, seemingly losing control and running into a truck that was heading in the direction of Nickerie. The truck driver reportedly attempted to avoid a collision with the car, but his vehicle was struck, just before running off the road into a utility pole.
Tulsie, the driver of the Toyota car, ended up in a ditch, while the other passenger, Massing, lay motionless on the side of the road.
Kaieteur News received reports from Guyanese living in Suriname of what they witnessed, one man said, “when I stop to help, the two a dem de done dead, and someone cover one of them with an umbrella”. The man said the police later came and moved the bodies to a nearby hospital.

The motor car that crashed and killed the two men

When Kaieteur News reached out to the family members of the man, they were still in shock, and had little to say, but did indicate that they were going to Suriname today to retrieve the victims’ bodies. The two men were said to be apostles of a church.