FORMER National Player/Coach and Administrator of the Georgetown Football Club (GFC), Peter Lashley known as ‘Peter Graham’, 54, of Lot 6 ‘D’ Tucville, was killed early yesterday morning when he found himself underneath a truck on Mandela Avenue, also in the city.

At the time, he was riding his motorcycle on the way to work at John Fernandes Ltd. (JFL), where he was employed for many years as a gate clerk. The accident occurred in the vicinity of the National Gymnasium.
Police reported that they are conducting investigations into the fatality that happened about 06:30 hrs on February 14, on Mandela Avenue, resulting in the death of motorcyclist Lashley.
Investigations, so far, revealed that Lashley rode out of the Meadow Brook access road and, allegedly, failed to stop and was struck down by a motor lorry that was proceeding along Mandela Avenue.
The driver of the lorry is in Police custody assisting with the investigations.
At the scene yesterday morning, several onlookers were speechless after they learnt the identity of the victim as they stared at the brain matter under the truck while the dead man’s cap and helmet lay nearby.
His motorcycle was taken away by the Police and lodged in their custody as several traffic cops were seen with the truck driver at the spot yesterday, taking measurements and interviewing other persons.
At the dead man’s residence, his wife, Lorraine Lashley, was inconsolable. She was in deep grief and shock as she cried loudly and had to be comforted by her four sons, relatives, neighbours and others, who showed up at the house upon hearing of the tragedy.
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One of Lashley’s sons, Jamal said his father left home early, as usual after breakfast, for work on his motorcycle and that was the last time they saw him alive.
The deceased was described as a loving, disciplined person, who loved his family, football and his job.
Lashley would go to the GFC and open up the place even though he had his full time job at JFL and invested almost all his spare time in training youths and had spent many years in football and at GFC.
He, once, played for Western Tigers Football Club, after which he became a coach.
As news of his demise spread, there were many outpouring of words which amounted to paragraphs on the social network, Facebook and these are excerpts of some expressed yesterday.
* Ras Abdalla Tafari Wadada (Alan La Rose) – former National U-19 footballer and Coach of GFC Peter Lashley left us about an hour ago as he was smashed to death by a truck on Mandela Avenue….R.I.P Peter.
* Marlon Marks – the football fraternity in Guyana has
lost a good man. Peter Lashley was killed this morning
in a gruesome accident on Mandela Avenue. His head
was crushed. Apparently, he was heading to work
when a sand truck struck him down. He ended up
underneath the truck. Peter was an employee of John
Fernandes Limited. Peter also played football for
Guyana. He was the Coach of GFC Football Club and
Administrator of GFC Ground. Some people used to
call him Peter Fernandes because of the amount of
years he chalked up with company. RIP Peter!
Meanwhile, Police Traffic Headquarters said, yesterday, that 14 deaths were recorded from 13 accidents, so far this year, as compared with 13 deaths from 11 accidents for the corresponding period last year.