French Quarter:--- Relatives of 21-year old Rene Davy Chance are mourning his sudden death, that occurred on Saturday evening. Chance it is understood from eyewitnesses lost control of Kawasaki Street bike in the vicinity of St. Martin Cable TV on French Quarter main road. Witnesses to the deadly accident said the young man lost control and skidded on the wet road since rain had fallen that afternoon.
Eyewitnesses say the young man hit a concrete wall and suffered severe head and neck injuries and died on the spot.
SMN News learnt that the young man also lost his mother in a motor cycle accident at the same age in the Dominican Republic. His father Rigobert Hodge confirmed that someone hit his son’s mother off her motor cycle in the Dominican Republic when he was almost two years old. Hodge said she also died on the spot.
Rigobert Hodge father of the victim said he was at his home at Round the Pond when a friend of the victim told him that his son died in a road accident. Hodge said he hurried to the scene and saw his son lying on the road. “When I reached the scene the ambulance people was working on him but I knew he had already died. I looked at the machine they hooked up on him and saw it had a straight line,” Hodge said.
He said several people were standing around his son as the ambulance personnel was working on him and he asked the gendarmes to seal off the scene of the crime. The distraught father said he also questioned the reasons why the ambulance took over 25 minutes to reach the scene of the accident. He said he was told that when someone called for an ambulance on weekends the call goes to Guadeloupe and then it is reverted to St. Martin. Hodge further explained that the ambulance attendants told him they called for the doctor at least three times before she reached the scene.
Asked if he knew if his son was doing a wheelie Hodge said he could not say exactly how the accident occurred. He said he learnt from others that his son went to drop a friend home and was on his way back home. Asked if he was wearing a helmet Hodge said when he saw his son on the ground he did not have on a helmet, he said he also learnt a helmet was on the scene. He said someone on the scene removed the motor cycle after the accident occurred and placed it in a nearby yard where it was later recovered.
So far, the gendarmes have not released any information on the accident and death of Rene Davy Chance.
