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Liverpool teen struck dead by speeding lorry
…driver escapes sound trashing, flees scene
Zani Munroe
By Leon Suseran
Tragedy struck on the Liverpool, Corentyne public road when a 15- year- old cyclist was struck down by a motor lorry. The driver then exited the vehicle and fled the scene upon close examination of what had happened to the child.
However, villagers ran after him planning to give him a sound trashing, but failed, so they started to destroy the windscreen of the vehicle in anger and retaliation.
Zani Munroe, of Lot 33 Liverpool Village and a Fourth Form student of the Manchester Secondary School was riding her bicycle just after 17:00 hrs, during which a truck, reported to be transporting sand for Anirud Contracting Services, was heading to New Amsterdam, when the driver hit the child down.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing the child “flip in the air” and landing at the corner of the road. One eyewitness, Medex Carol Corlette, whose home is just opposite the accident scene, said that she was in her home when she heard “unending hollering”. That was perhaps just after the impact.
“The child was hollering and when I went out, I saw [her] all drenched in blood—[she] was unconscious but the amount of blood—I knew she would not have made it”. Munroe was badly injured in the lower abdomen.
“The truck was going to New Amsterdam—speeding with a full load of sand! And the driver opened the door and went to the child but when he realized it was danger, he fled the scene”, she reported.
“It was speeding—that truck was speeding—with a full load of sand!” The child was pronounced dead on the way to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Police arrived on the scene, towed the truck, but the hunt is now on for the driver, who is reportedly from the Rose Hall Town area.
According to Munroe’s sister, Ziska, she was preparing to do some laundry at home when she was informed that her sister was badly hit. “I was at home when I heard my sister get knock down and when I come out on the road, I see the blood and I start to holler”.
Residents in the area also stated that it was only Monday evening that another accident was caused perhaps by a similar vehicle from that same contracting firm. However, no one lost their life.
The child is survived by her mother, Gwen Tappin; father, Selton Munroe; and sisters Zohan and Ziska as well as her brother, Joshua Smith.
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