The car in which Jude Thomas died in a smash-up with a taxi on the East Bank Demerara road.

An employee of Associated Industries Limited (AINLIM) early Sunday morning died in a horrific car accident, leaving to mourn his wife-an employee of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretariat- and their two school-age children.

Dead is 37-year old Jude Thomas, an AINLIM Sales Clerk for several years now. He and his badly injured friend and neighbour were returning to their homes at Diamond, East Bank Demerara after 'hanging out' in Georgetown during Saturday night.

Jude Thomas

“I don’t have no words, I can’t say anything, Just that my husband is gone, We were married for fourteen years,” his sobbing wife, Rayann Thomas, told reporters briefly at her 1105 Last Street, Diamond East Bank residence.

Their children- six-year old Justin Thomas a student of Green Acres Primary School, Thomas Street Georgetown and 13-year old Jenelle Thomas of Bishops High School- were still trying to come to grips with the tragic loss of their father.

One of Jude Thomas’ legs was severed from the rest of his body and it was taken separately to a city funeral parlour. He was sitting in the front left seat of the car which is owned by his friend's mother.

Mrs.Thomas’ father, Pastor Gladstone Denny, said he learnt that his son-in-law and Andrew- his friend and neighbour-were returning home when the accident occurred at Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara. Andrew’s condition is listed as critical.

Denny said he was told that the vehicle in which the two were travelling might have suffered a puncture and the driver lost control, eventually slamming into a Latchmin’s Taxi Service car that was being driven by Stephen Duncan,

Another view of the car in which Jude Thomas and his friend were travelling.

He was seriously injured and the front of his car badly damaged.