A 28-year-old mo­tor­cy­clist be­came this coun­try’s lat­est road fa­tal­i­ty when he crashed his bike dur­ing an ac­ci­dent in Curepe on Wednes­day night.

Richard Nang­wah was rid­ing his Kawasa­ki Nin­ja mo­tor­cy­cle along South­ern Main Road at 10.15 pm when he col­lid­ed with a sil­ver Kia Cer­a­to. The im­pact threw Nang­wah from the mo­tor­cy­cle on­to a pave­ment, while the car crashed in­to a near­by light pole and caught fire. The 26-year-old dri­ver es­caped.

Of­fi­cers from the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion and fire­fight­ers from the San Juan Fire Sta­tion went to the scene and ex­tin­guished the blaze.