Rider, steed killed after collision with truck

A father of three of Murphy Dam, Rosignol, West Coast Berbice lost his life when a truck collided with a horse he was riding, killing the animal as well.

Royston Dodson
Royston Dodson

Royston Dodson, 34, a cattle owner and part time mason was rushed in an unconscious state to the Fort Wellington Hospital where he received treatment for injuries to his head and other parts of his body.

He was immediately transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where he succumbed.
In a release, police said at Cottage around 4:45 pm on Thursday, Dodson “allegedly rode out on a horse from an access road unto the main road at Cottage and into the path of an oncoming motor lorry.” The police said too that the horse died on the spot. The driver of the motor lorry is in custody assisting with the investigations.

Dodson’s brother, Leyland Dodson told Stabroek News that his brother had gone to do some work at a rice field at Litchfield, belonging to his father, Lewis France. He said the man was returning from the backdam on the horse when the accident occurred.

He said a relative rushed him to the hospital and then travelled to Rosignol to inform them about the accident. According to him, “She [relative] told us that my brother met in a terrible accident while he was riding a horse and that the horse died and my brother might die soon.” He said shortly after they got to the hospital his brother was taken to the GPH in an ambulance.

His relatives had already left the hospital and were returning home to Berbice when they got a call that he died.
He leaves to mourn his siblings, children, his father and his mother, Agatha ‘Phyllis’ Dodson. (Shabna Ullah)