Motorcyclist on the run after killing elderly man

Police are on the hunt for driver of motorcycle CJ 5283, who abandoned his Honda cycle and fled the scene of a fatal accident Monday on the Nismes Public Road, West Bank Demerara.

Police Headquarters said the motorcyclist who was speeding south along the eastern carriageway of the road when he struck down 70-year-old pedal cyclist Hubert Caesar.

The septuagenarian was rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital in an unconscious state and was pronounced dead on arrival; the body is at the Ezekiel’s Funeral Parlour awaiting a post-mortem examination.