Latest update November 21st, 2024 1:00 AM
Nine-year-old among two killed in Mahaica crash
– two critical
A 47-year-old woman and a nine-year-old boy perished when the car in which they were traveling, spilt an electricity pole and crashed into a nearby canal on the Unity, Mahaica Public Road on the East Coast of Demerara, at around 10:30 hours yesterday.
Indira Ragubhir
Dead are Donnet Richmond-Hinds, 47 of Baracara, Canje River, Berbice, and nine-year-old Indar Raghubir of Blairmont, West Bank Berbice.
Raghubir’s mother, Indira, 35, and the driver of the car, 37-year-old Metanga Cameron of Limlair, Corentyne are hospitalized in critical condition.
They all were in a Toyota Carina AT 192 heading to Berbice when the driver lost control and slammed into the pole.
Richmond-Hinds who was sitting in the front seat was flung from the vehicle and died on the spot. Indar Raghubir who was in the back seat with his mother was also killed instantly.
The two injured persons were picked up at the scene and rushed to the Georgetown Hospital where they underwent emergency surgery for head injuries and shattered bones.
So badly damaged was Indira Raghubir’s left hand that the bone could be seen protruding as she lapsed in and out of consciousness.
The driver of the car reportedly told investigators that he was proceeding east along the road when Richmond-Hinds suddenly fell asleep and fell over to his side of the car.
He stated that this caused him to lose control of the vehicle.
His wife Dianne Cameron who traveled to the Georgetown Hospital immediately after receiving news of the tragedy, told this newspaper that her husband left home at around 04:30 hours to make an early trip to the city. She said that she received reports from her sister-in-law that Cameron’s car was ‘smashed up’ and three persons had died.
When she arrived at the hospital she was a bit relieved that he was not among the dead.
“He told me that he was gaffing with the woman in the front seat and she suddenly fell asleep and fell on his side causing him to lose control,” Dianne Cameron told this newspaper.
But a police source said that that version may not be an accurate one of the way the accident occurred.
The source said that there was no skid marks on the road and they will be seeking an official statement from Cameron.
The driver Metanga Cameron is assisted from the back of a pick-up.
The death of Indar Raghubir was shocking to both relatives and friends since he and his mother were scheduled to migrate to the United States of America soon to join his father.
According to reports, Indira Raghubir had already collected her US visa and had traveled to the city to uplift her son’s.
Her friend Sita Dindyal with whom she was staying at D’Edward Village, West Coast Berbice, recalled that she left for the city at around 04:30 hours and had traveled by bus to the city.
“I got a message that they reach in an accident. I call her niece. I went by the mortuary and I couldn’t look,” Dindyal said.
Relatives of Richmond-Hinds were reluctant to speak about the incident since her death comes at a time when they are recovering from two other deaths in the family.
Kaieteur News understands that Richmond-Hinds was returning to Berbice after attending the funeral of a relative in Llinden.
When Kaieteur News arrived at the scene of accident, Richmond-Hinds’lifeless body was lying on the parapet next to the badly injured Cameron.
As news of the accident spread through the village of Mahaica, several residents and passing motorists gathered to render whatever assistance they could.
Indira Raghubir was heard calling out for her son who had already been placed into the back of a station wagon.
“While coming down in the ambulance, she keep asking fuh she son. She didn’t know he dead and we couldn’t tell she dat,” an eyewitness told this newspaper.
The two deaths have pushed the road fatality figure on the East Coast of Demerara to 12 so far for this year.
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