A 23-year-old motorcyclist has lost his life in an accident at the junction of Croal Street and Winter Place around 17:45 hrs, on Thursday.
According to information from the Guyana Police Force (GPF), the deceased was identified as Mikel Blair of Lot 261 ‘D’ Field Turkeyen, Georgetown.

Blair, according to the police, was riding motorcycle #CL 9507 which crashed into another motorcycle driven by Tavel Jonas, a 27-year-old from Lot 101 Arapima Street, East La Penitence, Georgetown.
Enquiries disclosed that around 17:55 hrs, a report was made to the Brickdam Police Station (Operations Room), informing ranks of an ‘accident’ involving two motorcycles on Croal Street and Winter Place.
Traffic ranks were immediately notified and responded where they visited the said location but there was no evidence or signs of an accident.

The ranks subsequently received information around 18:00 hrs from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation that two males, who were believed to be involved in an accident, were at the GPHC’s Emergency Unit.
Ranks proceeded to the hospital where they met the two motorcyclists, one of whom, Blair, was unconscious, and was being treated by doctors. He subsequently died around 19:00 hrs.
His body is at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Mortuary awaiting a Post-Mortem Examination.

Jonas suffered a fractured right leg and was treated and later admitted as a patient in a stable condition. Further investigations are in progress.