10-month-old baby dies after father loses control of speeding car at Sophia

The road carnage continued on Guyana’s roadways when a 10-month-old baby met her demise following a two-vehicle collision at Dennis Street, Sophia, Greater Georgetown on Wednesday. The dead infant is Zainab Boyer of Sixth Street, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
Based on reports received, the accident involved a taxi bearing registration number HC 8812, which was at the time being driven by a 28-year-old of A Field Sophia, and motor car PYY 7263, owned and driven by the baby’s father, Khary Boyer, a 26-year-old of Sixth Street, Cummings Lodge, Georgetown.
Investigations revealed that at the time of the accident, motor car PYY 7263 was travelling at a fast pace with three occupants, a 32-year-old female, the now-dead child, and a five-year-old girl who was in the back passenger’s seat.
While in the vicinity of the Juvenile Holding Center, Boyer reportedly lost control of the vehicle thus resulting in him swerving and ending up in the path of the taxi.
This resulted in a head-on collision. Police stated that both drivers and all three occupants of motor car PYY 7263 sustained bodily injuries. They were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where Zainab Boyer succumbed to her injuries.
The other injured persons are being treated at the medical facility. Only recently, four teenagers lost their lives after the vehicle in which they were travelling went out of control and crashed into a parked truck and then into a concrete fence at Canal Number Two Polder, West Bank Demerara (WBD).
Dead are Daveanand Singh, 17, of Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD); Amiesha Jaikaran, 19, of La Grange Old Road, WBD; Divyanie Narine, 18, of Kitty, Georgetown; and Daniel Tirbeni, 19, of La Grange, WBD.
Two of them reportedly died at the scene while the other two died while receiving medical attention at the West Demerara Regional Hospital. Singh has already been laid to rest.