Friendship biker succumbs after accident

Rodwell Mercurius

A 35-year-old father of three died yesterday morning moments after he was pitched some 50 yards from his motorcycle when a car crashed into him on the Diamond, East Bank Demerara public road
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Rodwell Mercurius, of Friendship Squatting Area, E.B.D., was pronounced dead at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre yesterday around 12:30am. The driver of the car was tested by police with the use of a breathalyzer and he was found to be over the legal limit of alcohol consumption.

When Stabroek News visited the home of the deceased, his wife, Carol Mercurius said she received the news sometime after midnight but could not bear to go to the scene and see her husband in that