A 53-year-old father of seven, who apparently fell asleep while riding his motorcycle as a result of medication he was taking, died on the spot when he rode into the back of a parked lorry at New Hope, East Bank Demerara on Wednesday.
Dead is, Godwin ‘Papa’ Adoulph of Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt. Reports are that Adoulph was riding his motorcycle, CD 3744, heading in the direction of Timehri when he crashed into the parked lorry some time around 6.30 am.
Godwin’s widow, Sharon Adoulph, told Stabroek News that she received a message some time around 9 am telling her that her husband had been involved in an accident.
“The [Jehovah Witness] brothers came and they say ‘Sharon there was an accident and Godwin was involved’ and they were crying and I started hollering because I know from how they crying that he dead,” the grieving woman related.
She said she was told that her husband, who had been to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) a few hours before the accident, was riding his motorcycle in the direction of Timehri when he crashed into the vehicle.
“After he get in the accident he was on the ground for like two hours and nobody rendered assistance to him because it was very early in the morning and it nah had plenty people there,” she said.
Sharon Adoulph said that when she saw the body of her husband she was shocked because his entire head was bashed in and his shoulder appeared to be broken.
Recounting her husband’s movements before his unfortunate demise, she said he got up some time around 2 am on Wednesday and indicated that he was going to the GPH for treatment for an abscess.
She added that because of the abscess he had been admitted as a patient of hospital for three days prior to Wednesday and was subsequently discharged.
“I told him that he can’t leave now [at 2 am] because it is too early and I told him to leave at 4 am when I get up to cook.
When I get up he had already done ready and took his motorbike and left.”
She added that her husband returned from the hospital and told her that he knew his “number” to visit the doctor to get his abscess dressed and asked her for some money.
“He asked me for $5,000 to get some bags for feed and I gave him and I thought he was going at the front of the avenue [Laing] or at Bourda [Market]… to get the bags and then he would go back to the hospital. I don’t know how my husband get till up there.
“I can only assume that he went to the fisheries to get filleted fish, because he know that I like it, and come back and I don’t know what happen if he sleep away because of the medication and he ended up under the trailer,” she added.
Godwin Adoulph was described as a person of generous nature.
