– in wake of two motorcycle fatalities
The police are reminding citizens that under the laws they are required to wear a safety helmet when operating or being towed on a motorcycle with an engine capacity of 50 cc and over.
Troy Assanah
The police caution comes following the deaths of two motorcyclists on Sunday; neither wore helmets. Early Sunday morning 49-year-old Gerald Lindore of Sandy Babb Street, along with a pillion rider, was riding along Carmichael Street when he swerved to avoid hitting the dogs and lost control of his bike. Police said that both Lindore and the pillion rider fell, sustaining injuries in the process.
They were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where Lindore succumbed to his injuries while receiving medical attention while the pillion rider was treated and sent away. Yesterday, the police noted that Lindore was not wearing a safety helmet at the time of the accident. However, a post-mortem examination on his body yesterday, revealed that he died of a ruptured spleen.
Meantime, the police also noted that newspaper vendor, Troy Assanah of La Grange, West Bank Demerara (WBD), who died on Sunday afternoon following an accident on his motorcycle was not wearing a helmet at the time. The accident had occurred at around 12.30 pm Sunday on the main road at Canal Number Two, WBD.
Police said that investigations revealed that Assanah was operating his motor cycle along the roadway when he lost control and struck the rear wheel of a pedal cyclist. Both persons fell on the roadway as a result of the impact and received injuries. Assanah was taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital but had to be transferred to the GPH, where he died while receiving treatment.
His father, Percy, told Stabroek News yesterday that a post-mortem examination is expected to be conducted tomorrow and the funeral would most likely be on Saturday. He recalled that he last saw his son when he went to collect the newspapers from him on Sunday morning. Assanah was a familiar sight on the western side of the Demerara Harbour Bridge, where he sold his newspapers.
On a daily basis, he could be seen cajoling motorists to purchase from him and during peak periods would sometimes stand in the middle of the road, as traffic slowed to sell his newspapers. He was known to many travellers on the West Demerara as ‘Rasta Man’ and had been selling at the location for a number of years.
Assanah, who is the father of four children ranging from four to nine years, had taken over from his mother, who had also sold newspapers at the location.
kudos to the police for being responsible and getting the safety message out to the public about the wearing of helmets.
its sad when persons dont want to protect their own heads
Always! for your own safety, wear a helmet, also a body bumper, if can be afforded or available, a jacket that works like an air bag..
the police can only appeal to people to wear there helmets…….it is for there own safty and protection…and if they don’t want to then they pay the price….
OK, ok they should have been wearing helmets. But what about the dogs, man, what about the dogs? Don’t dog owners have a responsibility to keep their dogs in their yards. isn’t there some agency, e.g. GSPCA, dog pound, to keep stray dogs off the roads. I was attacked by dogs twice in RHT. The next time one attack me… ayah!
GUYANA DO NOT HAVE ANY PROPPER LAWS THAT THEY ADHEAR TO. THEY UNDERSTAND LAWLESSNES VERY WELL I DO NOT EVEN THINK THAT THEY HAVE AN ASPCA.
MY SYMPATHY GOES OUT TO THE LINDORE AND ASSANAH FAMILIES
Make it mandatory as part of their uniform.
And the sky is blue!!
Having a law and enforcing it are two different things.
The law also has to allow for standards of helmet – like ANSI etc. Some helmets are just a waste of time!!
Then again we have some US states that don’t require motorcyclists of any size engine to wear helmets – yet they require drivers and passengers of cars to wear seatbelts.!! So those of us in the first world – nah worry bout Guyana, leh dem bai kill demself how deh wan. Dem bai like fuh show how big an bad deh is by nah wearin helmet and seatbelt an life jacket an all else ah ting.
SSDD
I AM SORRY FOR THE GUYS,WHAT A SILLY LOST OF LIFE BUT THESE GUYS SHOULD KNOW SAFETY FIRST OUR BEST BIKERS IN THE US FOLLOW THE RULES, EVEN OUR PEDLE CICYLEIST WEAR HELMIT WHAT IS SO HARD THESE MORANS HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND THEMSELVES I HOPE THEY SAVE ENOUGH FOR A DECENT BURIAL IN THESE HARD TIMES. I HOPE THEIR FAMILY DO NOT HAVE TO PUT OUT CASH FOR STUPIDETY AND ALSO MORTGAGE ON THE VEHICLE. HOW FAST WERE THEY GOING , I GUSS THEY WERE NOT PAYING ATTENTION ON THE SPEED LIMITS IN THE CITY, SPEED LIMITS ARE THERE FOR A PURPOSE REMEMBER THAT..
Yes, there is a GSPCA based in GT, in Bourda.