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Woman is first Soesdyke/ Linden Highway fatality for 2011
Dead: Niaomi Nedd
The mangled car in which Niaomi Nedd met her demise.
The Soesdyke/Linden Highway claimed its first life for the year with the death of 21-year-old Naiomi Nedd around midnight on Friday.
Nedd, of 33 Stone Avenue, Campbellville, and also of Yarrowkabra, was a passenger in a car that was being driven by her mother, Carla Nedd, also called Judy, when the vehicle crashed into a tree at Kuru Kuru around 23:15 hours.
Nedd suffered the full impact of the crash and sustained a broken neck as a result.
She was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where she was rushed along with her mother and a 13-year old relative.
Police, in a statement, yesterday, said that Naiomi Nedd and student Shenika Elcock, also of Yarrowkabra, were passengers in motorcar PMM 8869 driven by Naomi’s mother, Carla Nedd.
“It is reported by the driver that she swerved from an animal that ran across the road, lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a tree. All the occupants received injuries and were taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where Naomi Nedd was pronounced dead, while Carla Nedd and Shenika Elcock were treated and sent away,” the police statement said.
A cousin of the dead woman confirmed the police version of what happened.
She said that Naiomi was accompanying her mother home when the tragedy struck.
Kaieteur News understands that after swerving from whatever was crossing the highway, the car came upon a pool of water, and the driver lost control.
Passersby, who saw the light of the car in the bushes off the highway, realised that something terrible had happened and rushed to assist the stricken occupants.
Relatives are certain that Naiomi Nedd died on the spot, since she was not responding to anything around her immediately after the accident.
“At least when she reached the hospital she was dead and at least if your neck is break, then is dead right away,” a relative told this newspaper. But this is not necessarily the case.
Carla Nedd, a vendor who operates outside the Stabroek Market, was too distraught to speak to this newspaper when she was contacted at the Sandy’s Funeral Home where she went to view her daughter’s body.
“Why it couldn’t be she hand or she foot? Why it had to be she neck?” she cried while being consoled by other grieving relatives.
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