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May 05, 2014 News
Two Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) friends at around 19:00 hrs last evening met a tragic end following a two vehicle collision at Craig EBD.
Dead are 33 year old Delon Barton, called ‘Smallie’ and popular disc jockey, Kurt Bascomb called ‘DJ Mavado’.
Barton leaves to mourn six children.
Both men were in a Toyata Raum and were reportedly traveling at a fast rate south along the public road when the driver lost control, colliding with another Raum.
A motorcyclist who was tailing the vehicle heading north was injured after he slammed into one of the vehicles.
“The bike man went right behind the man that de heading north and he just had to go with de impact and he get shy up in de air,” an eyewitness recalled.
Public spirited citizens had to pull the two men along with the several others that were injured from their respective vehicles and rushed them to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where Barton and Bascomb were pronounced dead.
This publication understands that both men, along with some of their friends, had earlier in the day travelled to the Linden/Soesdyke Highway and were at a creek outing before returning to Grove.
At the time of the accident the men were en route to the Linden Town week celebrations.
Several of the injured were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation after being stabilized at the Diamond facility.
Up to press time some of the injured identified were Haimwante Mhajed, her grandson Feeyad Azeem, 20, his parents Fazil and Zane Azeem.
Azeem, the driver of the car which Barton and Bascomb were travelling in, was among those transferred to the Georgetown facility.
At least one of the witnesses to the accident who assisted in transporting the men to the Hospital lamented the paucity of recourses at the Diamond Hospital.
According to the witness, when he arrived at the Hospital there was no porter around.
“I deh out hey in a vehicle out here shouting for them for over 15 minutes,” the witness said.
He said that when the doctors did arrive they were running back and forth for some time before the injured finally were put in the hospital.
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