The driver of a motor lorry is assisting with investigations following a fatal accident on Thursday at Cottage, West Coast Berbice.

Dead is Royston Dodson, 40, of Rosignol, also on the West Coast Berbice.

A Police report said that at about 16:45h on Thursday, Dodson allegedly rode out on a horse from an access road unto the main road at Cottage and into the path of an oncoming motor lorry.

As a result of the collision, the horse died on the spot and Dodson was admitted a patient at the Fort Wellington Hospital.

He was later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.