Mahaicony pensioner dies after collision

A sixty-eight-year-old man is dead following an accident yesterday morning at Wash Clothes, Mahaicony in which the bicycle he was riding collided with a lorry.

The dead man has been identified as Deonarine Lalchand of Wash Clothes, Mahaicony Branch Road, East Coast Demerara. The incident occurred at 8:05am.

According to a police report, the lorry which was driven by a twenty-five-year-old man was proceeding south along the eastern side of the road when he tried to overtake the pensioner going in the same direction.