Tributes were paid last night to the 51-year-old victim of a fatal road collision in Devonshire.

Albert Wayne Peets, of Smith?s, died on Tuesday afternoon after his motorcycle was involved in a collision with a car on North Shore Road at its junction with Foothills Road.

Former Tourism Minister C.V. (Jim) Woolridge described him yesterday as a ?very conscientious, very hardworking young fellow?. Mr. Woolridge said he grew up with Mr. Peets? family, the Blakeneys, of Flatts.

?He was very dedicated to his trade, which was an electrician. I was quite shocked when I heard it was him.

?He comes from a very fine ?He comes from a very fine and well-known and popular family in Smith?s Parish.?

Mr. Peets? great-aunt Iva Talbot, 87, also of Smith?s, said: ?He was a good worker and he was a good man.?

Mr. Peets was rushed to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital by ambulance in an unresponsive state and pronounced dead at 3.35 p.m. after Tuesday?s accident.

A Police spokesman said the crash happened at about 3.15 p.m. when a car turned right out of Foothills Road and collided with Mr. Peets? motorcycle, which was was travelling west on North Shore Road. The driver of the car, a 28-year-old Hamilton Parish man, was not injured.

According to a notice in today?s edition of , details of the funeral are to be announced later.

The notice says that Mr. Peets, of Peet Point Lane, Smith?s, was father to Desmond Crockwell and Xine and was the son of Lovett Trott and the late Kenneth Pereira.

Witnesses to the crash are asked to contact Sergeant Paul Simons on 299-4265 or the main Police number on 295-0011.