A 59-year-old motorcyclist was killed on New Year’s Day after crashing into a median on the Montrose Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

Dead is Donald Mootoo, a painter of 13 Bissoon Street, South Better Hope, ECD
Enquiries disclosed that Mootoo was riding motorcycle CH 7540 which was proceeding west along the northern driving lane on the southern carriageway of the road when the rider, in attempting a right turn, lost control and collided with the median at the centre of the road.
His body was flung onto a light pole in the centre of the road and he sustained severe injuries as a result of the impact, including severed lower limbs.

He was picked up in an unconscious state by public-spirited citizens and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
His wife for the past 39 years, Sumintra Sahadeo, said she last spoke to her husband on Old Year’s Day when they visited the market and he decided to assist a few friends in painting a building.

“At 03:00hrs on New Year’s Day someone from the village visited me and said he suspected my husband was involved in an accident. When I went to the hospital, it was true and he was dead,” she lamented.

She explained that her husband has two motorcycles and was never involved in an accident previously but was shocked to learn of his death while riding.