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Woman killed after car slams into culvert
A 58-year-old woman was killed around 06:15 hrs yesterday after the car she was in slammed into a culvert on the main road leading into Diamond Housing Scheme.
Cheryl David, of Nineteenth Street, Diamond New Scheme, was pinned for several minutes in the mangled vehicle.
She was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre when rescuers finally managed to pull her free.
Dead: Cheryl David
Three other passengers sustained minor injures.
Police have confirmed that the driver had solicited the passengers, although his vehicle, PGG 8987, was not licensed to operate as a hire car.
A number of private vehicles operate as ‘short drop’ hire taxis in the Grove/Diamond communities.
He has been detained and is to be charged shortly.
According to reports, the car was heading west along the Diamond Scheme main road when the driver suddenly lost control of the vehicle.
The passengers have told police that the vehicle, ‘spun’ several times before slamming into the culvert.
Mrs. David, who was sitting in the front seat, was pinned in the vehicle. Police said that rescuers tied a tractor and a truck to the mangled car in an attempt to wrench open the door and free the trapped woman.
By the time they succeeded and rushed her to the nearby Diamond Diagnostic Centre, she was already dead.
Police said that the driver has given them conflicting statements about the circumstances that caused accident.
“First, he said that he was going to overtake a truck; then he said that he looked around after a passenger tapped him on his shoulder. But the passengers all said that none of them touched him,” a source said.
Police said that the damage the vehicle sustained indicated that the driver was traveling at a fast rate.
Cheryl David is survived by her husband, Philip David and five sons.
Relatives explained that Mrs. David was heading to the market when she was killed. Mr. David said that he was at home when one of his sons informed him of his wife’s death.
He believes that the accident was as a result of “sheer carelessness.”
Mr. David also expressed the view that a recent decision to paint all hire cars in yellow would help passengers to identify the cars that are licensed to operate as taxis.
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