Two in hospital after Friendship accident

A motorcyclist and his pillion rider are currently patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after they suffered injuries following a collision with a car on Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara on Saturday night.

The accident involved PRR 2878 driven by twenty-nine-year-old Robert Singh of Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara and motorcycle CK 2347 ridden by sixty-five-year-old Noel Drayton with forty-nine-year-old pillion rider Mitzie Farley, both of Great Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

Enquiries by the police revealed that about 8:10pm on Saturday, the motorcycle was proceeding north along the western side of Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara while the car was proceeding along the eastern side of the road.

It is alleged that the car overtook several vehicles and Singh lost control of it and collided with the motorcycle causing Drayton and Farley to suffer injuries. They were taken to the Diamond Hospital where they were seen by a doctor and referred to the GPH and subsequently admitted as patients at the institution.