A TAXI driver attached to Scorpio Taxi Service died on Saturday afternoon following a collision at Montrose, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
Dead is Trevor Mangal called ‘Whistle’ of Crown Dam, Industry, ECD.

Reports are that the man was racing along the roadway in his motorcar bearing registration PXX2522, when he collided with two other vehicles. He died on the spot. Persons at the scene reported that Mangal’s speed was of such that the airbags inflated instantaneously on impact.

His friends at the taxi service expressed shock at his demise. When contacted, the man’s relatives offered not to comment on the family’s loss.
In a separate incident on Saturday, two men on a motorcycle who were said to be racing away from a police patrol in the vicinity of Lime and Hadfield Street, crashed into a vehicle and sustained various injuries.

One of the men sustained a broken arm. They have been identified as Akeem Sandy and ‘Sheldon’. The men were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for medical attention.