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Second Providence accident victim succumbs
The horrific crash which occurred Thursday evening at Providence Public Road, East Bank Demerara has claimed a second life.
According to reports, 18-year-old Christopher Chung of 136 Cato Street, Agricola, succumbed to his injures while being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital around 03:00 yesterday. His friend, Corwin Lambert, 16, of Brutus Street, Agricola, who was also involved in the accident died almost instantly. 
The two other persons who were injured, are 18 year-old Stephen Fraser of 136 Cato Street, Agricola, and Mathilda Gittens, of Mocha Arcadia. Up to press time the two were being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Fraser’s mother, Myrna Fraser, who is unable to move around because of an injured leg, said that she learnt of the accident from a relative who related the news via telephone. The woman said that she immediately contacted the hospital but was told that her son hadn’t arrived.
“Later, somebody called back and tell me that he still in the crashed car and fire fighters trying to get him out, but they said he was alive”.
When this publication visited the woman’s home yesterday she still wasn’t able to leave the house to go visit her son but noted that other relatives were with him at the hospital.
“Up to this morning they told me that he was out of surgery and recovering, he had to do surgery on his two legs, both are broken.”
Recounting the last time she saw her son, Mrs. Fraser said that she was very hesitant about him leaving the house to go out so late.
“He don’t normally go out so late but he come home hurrying to bathe and I go to the bathroom and ask him where he was going? He didn’t answer and I say ‘Boy, in these times you should stay off the road’ and he still didn’t answer,” Mrs. Fraser said.
The woman added that they still haven’t broken the news of his friends’ death to him but he keeps asking about them.
As it relates to the accident the woman said she only knows what she saw in the newspaper about how the incident occurred.
Meanwhile, relatives of 18-year-old Christopher Chung said that his death came as a shock to them. One of his cousins, Onika Gilkes, said she was told that Chung left with some friends for a birthday celebration and to collect a friend (Mathilda Gittens) from Mocha and were returning when the accident occurred.
Gilkes said that she was told that the driver of the car, her cousin, tried to swerve to avoid hitting a pedestrian and crashed into a utility pole. She said that the driver had borrowed the car to make the trip to Mocha.
Initial reports are that the car was seen speeding around 23:30 hrs, heading north along the western carriageway when the driver lost control.
It was unclear who was driving but drivers who stopped to render assistance reported seeing one man hanging from the driver’s side.
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