Grieving mother Sandra Matthews-Wilson is still seeking answers into the death of her son, Haile Matthews, after finding little satisfaction in Police reports attributing the fatal crash to alcohol.

Known to all as Marcus Garvey, Mr Matthews was killed in a collision with a car more than two years ago. Now his mother is appealing for witnesses to the incident to get in touch with her.

“I am not going to accept these — it took too long for them to come to me with the wrong spelling and the wrong information,” said Ms Matthews-Wilson of the November and December, 2013 reports on the crash.

Mr Matthews, a father of two girls now aged nine and 14, died in the early hours of January 18, 2013 at the brow of a hill on Montpelier Road, Devonshire, near the junction with Hesitation Lane, after his motorcycle collided with a car. Today, a roadside tribute plaque by the Arboretum marks the spot, not far from the family home on Alexandra Road, Devonshire.

Reports misspelt Mr Matthews’ name, and had the accident occurring in 2012, as well as placing his date of birth in August, 1982 instead of January. Ms Matthews-Wilson said she had grown more sceptical of the reports’ accuracy after seeing her son listed as Bermudian instead of including his dual nationality as someone born in the United States.

A letter of complaint sent to Police in May, 2014 received an apologetic reply from Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva on July 5, acknowledging the distress caused by the seemingly haphazard report.

Mr Matthews had a history of seizures. According to his mother, she had been repeatedly told by Police that the examination of her son’s body had not indicated any seizure at the time of his death. As Mr DeSilva’s letter acknowledges, no such test would have been possible. The incomplete data on her son’s date of birth likely came from Transport Control Department records, the letter adds.

However, authorities place the blame for the crash on the alcohol found in Mr Matthews’ body.

At 206 mg per 100ml of blood, Mr Matthews would have had two and a half times the legal limit of alcohol in his system at the time of the crash, which badly damaged the front of the other vehicle. His mother remains unconvinced.

“They told me that my son was drunk,” Ms Matthews-Wilson said. “He might have had a drink or two, but he was not drunk. They said that his bike went into the northbound lane when he was hit by a car coming the other way.

“Marcus lived with me and I know what would happen when he had these seizures. A bright light or anything at the scene could have triggered it.

“Something more happened that night and I want to know what it was. If it takes me to my dying day then so be it.”

She was told later that two people had witnessed the fatal crash, and is now asking for anyone who did to contact her at 517-0131.

“He always said ‘If anything happens to me, just look into it’,” Ms Matthews-Wilson recalled.

“I have moved on with my life, but I have to do this. That was my boy.”