A DRUNKEN quartet on a tractor heading to 72 Miles, along the Kaburee Main Access Trail in Region Eight, had the journey cut short after one of the men, sitting on the fuel tank at the back of the tractor, fell off and was crushed by the wheel.

Dead is Rondell Jacobs of Linden. The incident occurred Sunday and the tractor was driven by a teenager of Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo.

The driver and the two others are in Police custody, assisting with the investigation.
Reports indicate that around 14:30 hours on Sunday, the teenager and another tractor operator left 58 miles Potaro with the tractor heading to 72 miles.

Along the journey, they were drinking alcohol, and, on their arrival at 72 miles about 17:00 hours, they met Jacobs and another man.

Together, they went to a shop and began drinking. The driver claimed that, at about 22:00 hours, when they were all drunk, he drove the tractor with the others.

He claimed that Jacobs was standing on the left side footboard of the tractor and the other two occupants were sitting on the fuel tank at the back of the tractor.

It is alleged that, upon arrival at a junction, the tractor driver turned right and, due to the unevenness of the road, the tractor tilted left and Jacobs fell off the tractor onto the roadway and he subsequently drove over him (Jacobs) and stopped some distance away. When Police found Jacobs, he had lacerations to the left side of the head and bruises to the left rib area; a banks beer bottle was also found near him.