Sandy Ground: --- Relatives of Ricardo Gumbs are now mourning their loss, Gumbs passed away just around the midday hours on Thursday confirmed his aunt Ginette Gumbs. The 21-year-old young man was knocked off his motor cycle on Friday evening near US imports in Sandy Ground. He suffered massive head injuries as well as to his body including punctured lungs.
The accident victim was flown to Martinique on Saturday morning but was sent back to his native island on Tuesday. Doctors on that island concluded that there is nothing else they could have done to safe his life. Gumbs was declared fully brain dead on Tuesday. He passed away peacefully on Thursday midday at the Louis Constant Fleming Hospital.
Eyewitnesses say they saw a Black KIA bearing Dutch number plates hit Gumbs off his motorcycle. The driver did not stop to offer any assistance to the young man who went airborne after he was struck. Due to the impact, the motor cycle burst into flames creating a panic on the scene, relatives of the now deceased young man provided a video to SMN News to show what the situation was like when the accident occurred.
On August 06, another road accident occurred on Bellevue main road leaving a 20-year old man badly injured. A press release from the gendarmes indicated that the driver ended his race along the Bellevue Road in a wall. The accident occurred around 04:00 in the morning.