Mechanic perishes in Aubrey Barker crash

The minibus that struck Welcome off the motorbike being towed away from the scene of the accident.

A 40-year-old mechanic died on the spot yesterday after he was struck by a speeding minibus while riding a Yamaha motorbike along Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt.

Dead is Patrice Welcome, called `Mitch’, of Lot M11-1058 Critchlow Street Tucville and of Cane View Avenue, South Ruimveldt, George-town. According to reports, at sometime after nine yesterday morning, Welcome was heading east on Aubrey Barker, on his way to work in Tucville, when a Route 41 minibus, BNN 9334, which was heading in the opposite direction, overtook another vehicle and collided with the bike Welcome was riding.

When this newspaper arrived on the scene, the minibus was parked some fifty feet away from the spot where