1 dead, 3 injured following Rupert Craig Highway smash-up

– 2 arrested for robbing injured passengers

A 20-year-old woman was on Thursday killed while three others including her mother were injured following a two-vehicle collision along the Rupert Craig Highway.

Dead is Sabita Sukhoo of 123 Lusignan Pasture, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

The injured were listed as 44-year-old Anita Ramjit of Lusignan, ECD; 44-year-old Marlyn Wilson of Lot 10 Golden Grove, ECD and 45-year-old Mohan Mangal of Lot 273 Block

12 Non-Pariel, ECD.
Based on reports received, the accident occurred at about 10:00h and involved a route 44 minibus and a RAV 4 luxury vehicle. The circumstances surrounding the accident remains sketchy but the police have launched an investigation.

At the home of the dead woman, her mother, Anita Ramjit explained that she had decided to travel to Georgetown to purchase some cleaning

items and asked her daughter to accompany her.

“I asked my daughter if she is going with me, and she said wait till she finished eating. Then, she said ‘mommy, I am not going’, but afterward, she changed her mind, and she said she was going with me… and my baby de going to town and look at what happened,” the mother cried.
The minibus driver however, claimed that he attempted to pull over in the

corner when the RAV4 reportedly slammed into the side of the bus. As a result of the impact, the bus toppled several times before coming to a halt.
On the other hand, the driver of the SUV reportedly told police that the minibus swerved into his lane to pick up a passenger when the collision occurred.
However, Ramjit is contending that the minibus was not speeding. “All I know is that the bus turned around and I watched back, and I saw the lady and my daughter and the door was on the conductor’s neck,” she explained.
She further stated that her daughter’s head was outside of the bus. “When I watched I see a blue vehicle that they said grazed the bus and that is how the driver spin around to save us but when he did to save us on the concrete on the road, that is when the bus toppled over from there.”
She recalled coming out of the bus window where people came and render assistance. But she kept shouting for her daughter! Daughter whose head was out of the bus.
“I helped myself to come out of the bus, and I come through the window, and people ran and helped me to come out the bus, and all I asking for is my daughter to take her to the hospital, but nobody helped me and [told] me that I have to wait until the ambulance comes and by the time my daughter reached the hospital they said she died,” the mother recalled.
Meanwhile, at the accident scene, two men were arrested after they were caught stealing from the injured passengers. (Shemar Alleyne)