THE motorcyclist killed on Saturday night after colliding with a vehicle on the Gonubie Main Road has been identified as Antonov D’Oliveira of Sunrise-On-Sea.
D’Oliveira, 28, died on the scene after being involved in a collision with a Toyota Tazz just before midnight.
The 43-year-old driver of the Tazz is expected to appear in the East London Magistrate’s Court this morning where he will face a charge of drunk driving.
The deceased’s younger brother, Michael-Jason D’Oliveira, said the family was deeply upset over the incident.
“Too many times we hear about drunk drivers being slapped with a fine or a suspended sentence and we are calling for a strong prison sentence,” D’Oliveira said, yesterday.
He said when killed, his brother had been on his way to Gonubie to sleep over at a friend’s place.
Describing his brother’s final moments, D’Oliveira said: “He went out for lunch with our sister at Hemingways and he left her house just after 9pm. Before going to Gonubie he went to visit a friend in Dorchester Heights and left there at 11.30pm to go and put petrol in his bike.”
He said eyewitnesses had alleged that while travelling on the Gonubie Main Road, the Toyota Tazz had left its lane and collided with his brother.
“Onlookers called Dynamic EMS and they were there in seven minutes. One bystander said before the ambulance could arrive he felt a weak pulse and when paramedics arrived at the scene my brother was already dead.”
D’Oliveira said he arrived at the scene just after 1am.
“People told me the driver of the Tazz had two female occupants who fled the scene soon after the accident,” he said.
He said his brother would be buried on Friday at 3pm at the Shofar Church on the Old Gonubie Main Road.
Antonov is survived by his younger brother Michael-Jason, sister Rebecca and parents Stephen and Monique D’Oliveira. A group of his friends will host a surf paddle in his memory on Sunday afternoon at Nahoon Beach. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za
Driver arrested after biker killed
D’Oliveira, 28, died on the scene after being involved in a collision with a Toyota Tazz just before midnight.
The 43-year-old driver of the Tazz is expected to appear in the East London Magistrate’s Court this morning where he will face a charge of drunk driving.
The deceased’s younger brother, Michael-Jason D’Oliveira, said the family was deeply upset over the incident.
“Too many times we hear about drunk drivers being slapped with a fine or a suspended sentence and we are calling for a strong prison sentence,” D’Oliveira said, yesterday.
He said when killed, his brother had been on his way to Gonubie to sleep over at a friend’s place.
Describing his brother’s final moments, D’Oliveira said: “He went out for lunch with our sister at Hemingways and he left her house just after 9pm. Before going to Gonubie he went to visit a friend in Dorchester Heights and left there at 11.30pm to go and put petrol in his bike.”
He said eyewitnesses had alleged that while travelling on the Gonubie Main Road, the Toyota Tazz had left its lane and collided with his brother.
“Onlookers called Dynamic EMS and they were there in seven minutes. One bystander said before the ambulance could arrive he felt a weak pulse and when paramedics arrived at the scene my brother was already dead.”
D’Oliveira said he arrived at the scene just after 1am.
“People told me the driver of the Tazz had two female occupants who fled the scene soon after the accident,” he said.
He said his brother would be buried on Friday at 3pm at the Shofar Church on the Old Gonubie Main Road.
Antonov is survived by his younger brother Michael-Jason, sister Rebecca and parents Stephen and Monique D’Oliveira. A group of his friends will host a surf paddle in his memory on Sunday afternoon at Nahoon Beach. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za
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