2 killed, 6 injured in horrific Mahaica accident after high-speed Police chase

…as 21-year-old flees Police with teen girlfriend in car

A horrific four-vehicle collision along the Mahaica Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Wednesday morning claimed the lives of two young persons and left several others, including cops and children, injured.
The fatal crash occurred following a high-speed chase involving the Police.
The horrific four-vehicle accident occurred around 11:00h in the vicinity of the Mahaica Bridge.

Dead are 21-year-old Christopher Bhagwandat of Mon Repos, ECD, and his 16-year-old girlfriend, Shereeda Persaud of Bath, West Coast Berbice (WCB).
Injured are two children aged two and eight, along with three Police Constables and one Corporal.
The children were occupants of motor car PAB 8222 (a blue Fielder Wagon) driven by their 29-year-old father of Charlotte Street, New Amsterdam, Berbice. Also in that car was his 32-year-old wife.
Bhagwandat was the driver of motor car PNN 8852 that Police were chasing after he reportedly fled from traffic ranks, who were stationed at Perseverance Public Road, Mahaicony, ECD.
The accident involved the Police pickup, two motor cars, and a truck.
Regional Commander Khali Pareshram told the media that the motor car driven by Bhagwandat had stopped at a roadblock but when ranks asked to see the driver’s identification card, he pulled the vehicle into the corner but then drove away as the traffic officer approached.
As such, ranks from the Mahaicony Police Station were alerted and officers joined the Force-issued van and gave chase.
Then the accident occurred near the Mahaica Bridge. According to information reaching Guyana Times, the Police vehicle collided with PNN 8852.
As a result, the car crashed into a truck which then flipped and slammed into a car. Three cops, including a female officer, were injured as well as the occupants of the second car.
The truck driver suffered minor injuries. The injured are currently receiving care at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The regional commander could not say if anything illegal was found in the motor car which was being chased.
Meanwhile, Guyana Times was informed that Bhagwandat had travelled to West Berbice to pick up his girlfriend, to take her back to his house to celebrate his mother’s birthday, which was on Wednesday.
One of the dead man’s relatives in an interview with another section of the media related that Bhagwandat had left his house early in the morning, even though he was warned not to travel to Berbice.
“His mother told me to tell him I don’t want he to go to Berbice. She said she tell him don’t go and he still want to go. He leave this morning (Wednesday) fuh go and bring she…,” the woman said.
Bhagwandat, who was a mechanic at Vicky’s Mechanic Shop at Mon Repos, had only lost his father just four months ago. Family members claim that they had never met Bhagwandat’s girlfriend, but had only heard him talking about her.
“Only on he phone we see he does talk to she… I does tell he Christopher leh she done school, and when she done, we gone go and talk to she parents them,” the tearful woman said.
Bhagwandat would have turned 22 on February 28. (G9)