Latest update April 17th, 2025 9:50 AM
Teen victim in Vigilance accident succumbs
Dead: Leota Eastman
The 14-year-old Vigilance, East Coast Demerara (ECD) girl, who was struck down by a car on Saturday, last, succumbed to her injuries yesterday.
Leota Eastman, a third form student at the Beterverwagting Secondary School had sustained a broken left leg, fractured skull and other head injuries following an accident on the Vigilance Railway embankment.
She was a patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) up until her death.
The driver of the vehicle that struck her was granted bail to the tune of $100,000 on Tuesday but after learning about the teen’s demise, he reportedly turned himself in to the police yesterday.
Kaieteur News was unable to contact Eastman’s relatives but was reliably informed that the teen succumbed sometime around 12:30 hrs yesterday.
Last Saturday, Leota Eastman was heading to a bakery in Buxton to run an errand for her sickly father when the mishap occurred.
Her sister, Oleta Eastman, had told this publication that her sister was heading to the bakery on her bicycle when a car, heading east along the embankment collided with another one, exiting from another street, Company Road.
“I wasn’t there, but I heard that the car that hit her was heading east on the embankment when another one leave the cross street. So as to avoid a collision, the one that hit her swerved from that car and go into the other lane and hit her,” the teen’s sister had related.
Kaieteur News understands that the driver was returning home from work when the incident occurred. The driver of the other vehicle – which exited Company Road – is nowhere to be found.
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