With only two days remaining before 2019 ends, there have been over 100 fatal accidents across the country, which claimed the lives of 123 persons.
In the month of December, to date, six accidents at various locations have resulted in 11 persons losing their lives.
Dead: 28-year-old Vijai Sankar
On Thursday, December 26, “Boxing Day”, a 28-year-old driver, who was allegedly speeding along the Uitvlugt Public Road, West Coast Demerara (WCD), became the country’s latest road fatality.
The dead man was identified as Vijai Sankar of Lot 24 Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE).
Reports are that at about 03:15h, Sankar was driving his Range Rover, PWW 9100, and was proceeding west along the southern carriageway of the WCD road when the accident occurred.
Dead: 78-year-old Juliet Cornelius
While allegedly driving at a fast rate of speed, Sankar lost control of his vehicle and collided with a light pole and a fence on the southern side of the road.
According to the police, as a result of the impact, the man received injuries about his body but was trapped inside of the vehicle until ranks of the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) arrived at the scene and managed to get him out of the wreck.
He was transported to the Leonora Cottage Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
33-year old anaesthetic nurse, Keon Sealey
Meanwhile, a West Coast Berbice (WCB) resident died on Boxing Day after being hit by a speeding car as the driver tried to avoid hitting sheep on the roadway. The incident occurred at Number 41 Village on Tuesday, December 17, but the man died nine days later.
Dead is Carloy Moore called “Carl Moore”,77, of Lot 28 Number 41 Village.
Moore had been attempting to cross the road when the speeding vehicle hit him.
Five days prior to the Boxing Day accident, a 78-year-old woman of West Watooka, Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice), was killed on her way to church after being struck by a speeding car. Dead is Juliet Cornelius of Lot 55 West Watooka, Linden, Region 10.
Dead: Minibus driver, Seechandall Chandilall
On Sunday, December 22, at about 07:15h on Burnham Drive, Wismar, a motorcar – PVV 2251 – that was driven by a 27-year-old male was proceeding south along the eastern side of the road at a fast pace and while negotiating a left turn, the driver suddenly lost control of the vehicle and ended up on the southern parapet.
There, he reportedly struck Cornelius, who was walking. She fell onto the roadway and was picked up by public-spirited citizens and transported to the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC). She died while receiving medical attention.
On Wednesday, December 18, five persons lost their lives after the Route 50 minibus they were travelling in crashed into a truck.
28-year-old Medex, Alana Vaughn
The horrific accident took place at Fairfield, Mahaicony, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice), and involved a truck bearing registration GPP 9433, which was heading to Berbice and the minibus (BRR 5478), which was heading to Georgetown.
Those who died in this accident were: Ewart Reynolds, 64, of Calcutta, Mahaicony; Alana Vaughn, a 28-year old Medex of Farm, Mahaicony; Keon Sealey, a 33-year old anaesthetic nurse, who was also of Mahaicony; Maxwell Thom, 76, and Seechandal Chandilall, the driver of the bus who lived at Bath Settlement, Berbice.
One week earlier, on Wednesday, December 11, a teenager who attended the Bina Hill Secondary School, Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), died after he lost control of the motorcycle he was riding allegedly at a fast rate, in an effort to avoid slamming into an approaching vehicle.
Dead is 16-year-old Danillo Allicock of Surama Village, North Rupununi, Region Nine.
On Saturday, December 7, another motorcyclist, Godfrey Willis, who hailed from Goat Farm, Ituni, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice), lost his life when the motorcycle he was riding, which did not have a headlamp on, collided with a car.
He was taken to the Ituni Health Centre but was pronounced dead on arrival by the doctor on duty.
On Tuesday, December 3, 18-year-old cyclist, Deshon Morris lost his life while his pillion rider was injured after the motorcycle they were riding collided with a truck belonging to Muneshwers Limited, at Industrial Estate, Ruimveldt, Greater Georgetown.
Morris, of Lot 4 East La Penitence, Georgetown, was pronounced dead on the spot while Keon Granville, 27, of Phase 2 Lot 1 East Ruimveldt, was treated and sent away.
