– both died in road accidents, resided in same village

FRANKLYN Bennett Beveney, a 54-year-old father of four who resided at lot 37-38 Plantain Walk Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara was early yesterday morning killed when he lost control of the motorcycle he was riding and collided with a bridge.

A female companion who was the pillion rider on the motorcycle, CG 1027, told family members and the police that the man’s vision became blurred by the high beam of a truck travelling in the opposite direction.
The man who is also known as ‘Rudy’ in his village was at the time heading east along the East Coast Highway to drop the woman at Enterprise after they were both at the wake of Randolph Rodney, Beveney’s 72-year-old uncle who was killed in a road accident last Friday evening while crossing the road. Both men are from Beterverwagting Village.
The dead man’s wife Dawn Cadogan Beveney said she was at home yesterday morning when his relatives visited her, enquiring whether he had slept home. They had been told that the man might have been in an accident and died.
The woman and her children then visited the accident scene but the man was not there. However, other relatives went to the hospital where they positively identified the body of Beveney.
This is not the first time that Beveney who is a lover of motorcycles was in a road accident. Ironically, yesterday morning prior to the accident, the motorcycle had developed mechanical problems at the exact spot where the man’s uncle was killed two nights earlier and whose wake Beveney was returning from when he met his demise.
Asked about the female companion the man was travelling with when he crashed into the bridge, relatives indicated that they did not know her. She was however at the hospital suffering from minor injuries to the head and arm.
On Friday night Randolph Rodney was attempting to cross the road when he was struck by a vehicle and later died while receiving medical attention. The police are still investigating that accident, even as the truck driver who is said to have caused Beveney to lose control of his motorcycle cannot be located as he continued along his way.

(By Leroy Smith)