Toddler’s death: Father bought motorcycle days before accident

The motorcycle which was hit by a speeding car in East Canje on Friday afternoon resulting in the death of a two-year-old, was purchased by her father a few days prior.
This is according to the toddler’s mother, Jamacy Carmichael.
On Saturday, a female driver lost control of the car she was driving and ended up in the lane of oncoming traffic. This resulted in the crash. The car also hit a bridge at Canefield, East Canje, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) before slamming into a concrete fence.

The car crashed into a motorcycle being driven by Marley Ross of Mount Saini, New Amsterdam.
29-year-old Ross and his two-year-old daughter – the pillion rider – were both flung into the air and fell onto the parapet.
Jasmine Ross was pronounced dead on arrival at the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Her mother, Jamacy, said her father was taking her for a ride.
She related that at about 11:00h, Ross informed her that he was going to take his only child for a ride.
“He put she on the motorbike and they left. I started to call his phone because I say like he was taking too long and he was not answering and then I hear a noise outside and it was a lil boy, he come and say that my daughter just reach in an accident.”

Carmichael said she went to the New Amsterdam Hospital and when she was allowed to go inside of the Accident and Emergency Unit, she saw Jasmine lying motionlessly.
According to Carmichael, there appeared to be no injuries on the body apart from a small laceration on her chest.
“When I hold her head a set of blood come out, so it had to be head injuries,” the woman revealed.

She said that her daughter was very attached to her father.
“If I tell her that she can’t go with him she would cry and holler and he would argue because when he is going out, he don’t want to leave her at home. He wants to go with her all the time. He always want to carry her everywhere,” she said in tears.”
She said Ross suffered a broken leg and injuries to his neck.

“I didn’t get to talk to him. I was just hollering for my daughter all the time. His foot break and his neck was in a cast. He wasn’t catching himself. He just calling out her name, that is all he doing,” the grieving woman said.
Carmichael said Ross works in the interior and had only bought the motorcycle a few days before coming home for the holidays. The motorcycle had not been issued with a registration number as yet. (G4)