A young mother has lost her life while two of her friends are suffering severe injuries after the vehicle in which they were travelling veered off the road in the vicinity of De Kinderen, West Coast of Demerara (WCD).
Dead is 28-year-old Nkasi McKend of Lot 2 Sea Field, Leonora, WCD who was the driver of the motorcar bearing registration number PRR 4153.
Injured are Mario Desa and Caleb Morrison.
The incident occurred in the wee hours of Friday morning after the friends were reportedly returning from a party.
According to the Police, the young business owner lost control of the vehicle as
Dead: Nkasi McKend
she was negotiating a turn at an alleged fast rate along the public road.
The motorcar reportedly turned turtle and came to a halt after it crashed into a fence and landed in a thick clump of bushes on the western side of the road.
The now deceased woman was flung from the vehicle. She received multiple injuries to her head and other parts of her body as a result of the impact.
However, she was subsequently picked up by Police in an unconscious state and rushed to the Leonora Cottage Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. Her friends have since been hospitalised.
Only earlier this week, Police Commissioner Leslie James, in giving a breakdown of crime and accident statistics for 2018, said there has been an overall spike in the number of fatal accidents recorded when compared to the same period last year.
He used the platform to make some requests, which can affect how the GPF can function in a positive manner. Those include provisions for a traffic advisory board, training board and promotion board. At present, consultations have been convened to determine whether these panels should be reinstated. As a matter of
The damaged car in which the woman and her friends were travelling
fact, the Commissioner is quoted as saying, “There is need for the traffic advisory board. There is need for a training board and, of course, a promotion board. We have strongly recommended the resuscitation of those boards. If we are an organisation that can be recognised as a prudent organisation, those boards ought to be in place.”
Guyana has been ranked along with top countries in the world that have not undertaken sufficient efforts to reduce accidents in keeping with the UN strategy.
