A DRUNKEN spree at a Sunday night pool party in New Amsterdam in Region Six ended in an horrific accident on the shoulders of the Good Hope Public Road on the West Coast of Berbice in Region Five in the wee hours of Monday morning, and the consequent deaths of three New Amsterdamers plus hospitalisation of six others at the New Amsterdam and Georgetown public hospitals respectively.Tommy Thomas, Jeron James and Jevon Gregory-James all lost their lives when rented Toyota Raum PRR 1163, crammed with nine persons, according to the police, became uncontrollable and collided with two lorries parked on the shoulder of the road at Good Hope, West Coast Berbice.

Brian Simpson, Janelle Blackman, Luanna Ross, Jamacey Monroe, Demville Hemthor and Devon Pydana were all hospitalised as a result of this accident up to late yesterday afternoon.

Pydana was said to be the driver of the ill-fated vehicle.

Information reaching the Guyana Chronicle has indicated that the young people, imbibing at a pool party in New Amsterdam, decided to travel to Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice, to continue partying at a location there.

Police sources have said that as the Toyota Raum came to the junction on the road which takes traffic into two separate directions, Pydana, attempting to negotiate the turn, lost control of the vehicle, and it barreled into the two parked lorries.

Persons from the area immediately rushed out of their homes to render assistance to the injured. Yesterday’s police press statement reported that the accident victims were all taken to the Fort Wellington Hospital before being dashed respectively to the New Amsterdam and Georgetown public hospitals.

Several huge trucks presently park along the West Coast Berbice roadway in the vicinity of rice mills as they await the offloading of paddy from their trays.

Police sources confirmed yesterday that all of the trucks which were parked awaiting the offloading of their paddy loads were off the road, were way down into the corner, and were not in any way obstructing the free flow of traffic proceeding in either direction. (Leroy Smith)