Two young men, who were close friends and lived alongside each other at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara (ECD), died after the motorcycle they were riding crashed into a Jeep at the intersection of the Ogle Access Road and the ECD Highway on Saturday night.
Dead are Rameshwar Singh, 18, and Jason Harris, 20. Relatives and friends gathered yesterday afternoon at the Lots 6 and 7 Section ‘B’, Cummings Lodge homes where the close friends lived with their families. People slowly filtered in throughout the afternoon, offering their condolences and support to the two families.
According to the police, Harris was riding his motorcycle, CJ 6360, along with Singh who was the pillion rider at around 11:20pm on Saturday, when the crash occurred. At the time, the two men were traveling west along the ECD highway, approaching the intersection at the Ogle Access Road. A Jeep, PGG 8844, which was being driven by a 20-year-old resident of Campbellville, was traveling east along the northern carriageway of the highway.
