–    as CBR bike collides with bus
MECHANIC Errol Gonsalves, 50, of Lot 97 Croal Street, Georgetown, was killed, instantaneously, when the CBR motorcycle he was riding collided with a Bounty Farm mini-bus at Farm, East Bank Demerara, about 13:30 hrs yesterday. Daughter of the deceased, Dominique Gonsalves told the Guyana Chronicle that her father was going to  MACORP, also on the East Bank Demerara, to build an engine, when he died.
She said the sad news was received shortly after he left home.
He operated a mechanical workshop on South Road, Georgetown, where he was well known.
Scores of relatives and friends went to his home, to console his wife and three children, after hearing of the tragedy.
Reports indicated that the mini-bus does a consumer shuttle and was proceeding North, after leaving Greenfield Park, a gated housing scheme and Gonsalves was going in the opposite direction when the smash-up occurred.
Schoolgirl Bibi Areefa, 16, of Lot 15 Public Road, Agricola, who attends Camille’s Institute, was also injured in the accident.
She was hurled into a nearby trench and suffered injuries to her head and body. The teen was taken to Diamond Diagnostic Centre, on East Bank Demerara, but was subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where she was treated.
Police Traffic Chief Neil Semple attributed the fatality to speeding and, again, exhorted all road users to be attentive and obey all the laws and regulations.
He also alluded to the Houston fatal accident, which claimed the lives of best friends, race car driver Raymond Ally, 22 and Jermaine Frank, 21, both of Friendship, on Sunday morning.
They were driving to the city after leaving a function at Herstelling, East Bank Demerara when their vehicle careened into a trench.
The car in which they were travelling in was, reportedly, racing against another vehicle while negotiating the dangerous turn and went out of control and was submerged in water.
The post mortem examinations, performed yesterday, established that Ally and Frank both died of asphyxiation due to drowning and their blood alcohol level was above the prescribed level.
Police are also investigating another fatal that occurred about 11:00 hrs that same Sunday, on Number 66 Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice, in which pedal cyclist Chandradat Motee, 53, of the same village, lost his life.
Police said the driver of motor car PHH 3570 was proceeding along the roadway when, it is alleged that the cyclist rode out from an access road and was struck as he attempted to cross the thoroughfare.
Motee was pronounced dead on arrival at Skeldon Hospital, Corentyne and the man who was driving the motor vehicle is in custody, assisting the investigators.