A staff member attached the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Limited was on Saturday morning killed after she lost control of the car she was driving and slammed into a utility pole in Berbice.
Dead is 29-year-old Shabana Ali of Nigg Settlement, Corentyne, Berbice.
According to reports received, at the time of her demise, Ali was driving her motor
Dead: GBTI staff member, Shabana Ali
car bearing registration number PNN 189 and attempted to negotiate a turn in the vicinity of Palmyra when she lost control of the vehicle.
After slamming into the utility pole, persons ran to her rescue. She was pulled from the wreckage in an unconscious state and rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
Divisional Traffic Officer Boodnarine Persaud told Guyana Times that there were no skid marks on the roadway, which indicated that Ali had full control of the vehicles moments before it drove off of the main carriageway. He further stated that there is evidence which suggested that brakes were applied after the vehicle reached the gravel at the side of the road.
Persons at the scene claimed that Ali overtook them in a speed, assuming that she was probably late to get somewhere. One man said she was actually driving
The wrecked car driven by Ali on Saturday morning
at about 130 kmph.
The dead woman’s brother; Zaman Ali, said she was on her way to Georgetown on work business.
“Yesterday (Friday) I talk to her and she told me that she had to go to Georgetown for some training at the head office. I did not talk to her this morning because I had to go to the airport and it was when I was coming back I received the devastating message,” the brother noted.
The mother of a four-year-old daughter has been working at the financial institution for the past eight years. She leaves to mourn her husband, daughter, parents, siblings and other relatives.
