Truck driver charged with causing death of biker

Twenty-five-year-old, Dion Adam Richards appeared before Magistrate Alicia George at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

The accident involved a lorry, GAB 8067, owned by Build Smart Construc-tion and driven at the time by Richards, a 25-year-old from Diamond, East Bank Demerara, and motorcycle, CK 1795, owned and ridden by Curtly Christopher Cambridge (now deceased), a 32-year-old of Lot 1578 Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt, George-town.

The lorry driver told investigators that he was proceeding west along the embankment road, and turned north into Agricul-ture Road. He said the motorcyclist was proceeding east along the railway embankment road at a fast rate and drove into the back of the lorry as it was turning into Agriculture Road.