AN autopsy done Friday on the body of 32-year-old Rondell Jacobs of Linden revealed that he died of multiple injuries resulting from the motor vehicle accident in which he was involved.

Jacobs, a labourer of Blue Berry Hill Wismar, Linden, was part of a drunken quartet travelling on a tractor heading to 72 Miles Village, along the Kaburi Main Access Trail in Region Eight. The journey was cut short after Jacobs, who was sitting on the fuel tank at the back of the tractor, fell off and was crushed by the wheel.

The incident occurred Sunday last 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 Village.

Along the journey, they were drinking alcohol, and, on their arrival at 72 Miles at 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 to head to their destination.

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 driver turned right and, due to the unevenness of the road, the vehicle tilted left and Jacobs fell off the tractor onto the roadway and the driver subsequently drove over Jacobs before stopping some distance away.

When the 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 to his body.