Linden-Soesdyke Highway fatal crash: Speeding driver lost control, crashed into rear of GDF lorry – Police

Four persons were killed and three other occupants injured after a motor car allegedly travelling at a fast rate of speed crashed into the rear of a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) lorry along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway at Long Creek on Friday night, police say.

The accident occurred at about 20:45h on Friday, October 23, and involved motor lorry DFB 1788, driven by a 40-year-old resident of Paradise Village, West Coast Berbice, and motor car PZZ 8392, driven by Egburt Blair, of Half Mile, Wismar, Linden.

The dead include the driver, Blair, 55, and passengers Tevin Thompson, 30, of One Mile, Wismar, Linden; Dannel Darrell, 28, of Block 22, Wismar, Linden; and Eon Jarvis, 40, of Wismar, Linden.