Two dead, one injured as car slams into utility pole

Apr 05, 2013 News

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–    driver, brother detained
Two young men were killed and a teenage girl injured at around 02:45 hrs yesterday when the car in which they were traveling slammed into a utility pole after swerving off the roadway near New Hope, East Bank Demerara.
The lifeless bodies of Denzil Thomas, 24, of Coverden, East Bank Demerara and Quincy David, 21, of Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, were retrieved from the rear seat of the vehicle, PFF 204, which had ended up in a yard after hitting the pole and ploughing through a concrete and metal fence.
Quincy David was employed at the Bounty Supermarket outlet at Grove, East Bank Demerara, while Thomas operated a shop at Coverden.
A third passenger, 16-year-old Amanda Lloyd, of Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, sustained minor injuries and was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). A relative said that she was expected to be discharged shortly.
Kaieteur News understands that the driver of the vehicle, as well as a brother who was sitting next to him, in the front passenger seat, escaped with minor injuries.
According to reports, one of the siblings accompanied the injured Amanda Thomas to the GPHC, but subsequently disappeared.  He reportedly only turned up at the Grove Station after police had detained his brother. Both men are now in custody, though there are reports that the siblings have both denied being at the wheel at the time of the crash.
Kaieteur News confirmed that the men are cousins of one of the deceased passengers, Denzil Thomas.
The accident occurred near a turn where a resident, who had lived there since childhood, said some 20 fatalities have occurred over the past several years.
It is believed that the driver lost control as he was negotiating the same deadly turn while heading back from Georgetown.
A police release stated that the driver was allegedly proceeding at a fast rate, when he lost control of the vehicle and struck a utility pole and a concrete fence.
Kaieteur News was told that the siblings had picked up Thomas and David in the vicinity of the Timehri minibus park in Georgetown, some hours earlier. The young men, along with Amanda Lloyd, were heading back home when the driver veered off the roadway and crashed into a pole and a fence on the western side.

IMPACT SHOOK HOUSE
New Hope resident Ramnaresh Rangasammy told Kaieteur News that he was awakened at around 02:45 hrs by a loud impact that shook his house. On looking outside he saw that a car had smashed down part of his fence. He said that he saw a male figure, whom he assumed was the driver, standing near the vehicle.
According to the resident, the man then assisted a male passenger, who was in the front seat, out of the car. Residents then arrived and removed the bodies of the two young men, later identified as Denzil Thomas and Quincy David, from the rear seat.
He said that a female passenger, who was moaning, was also lifted from the back seat.
A taxi driver, accompanied by one of the men from the wrecked car, took the young woman to the East Bank Demerara Regional Hospital. Kaieteur News understands that the girl was sitting between David and Thomas when the vehicle crashed.
She was subsequently transferred to the GPHC, while a hearse transported the bodies to the Lyken/Newburg Funeral Parlour.
Donna Peters, the mother of the detained men, said that she was informed via phone call that her sons had been involved in an accident.
Ms. Peters said that she immediately contacted the elder son, Curtis, on his mobile phone, and received confirmation about the mishap.
“I asked what happened and he said that Deion (his brother) hysterical and Curtis said that he (Curtis) get knocked in his face and that they were at Hope (East Bank Demerara). Then he say that two passengers on the ground and they look like they dead.”
Ms. Peters said that she was unsure which of her sons was driving.

CALL FROM FEMALE FRIEND
Kaieteur News was told that Quincy David had lived with an aunt, Beverly Marshall, ever since his mother passed away some eight years ago.
A distraught Ms. Marshall told Kaieteur News that her nephew received a call from a female at around 02:00 hrs yesterday, and then told her that he was going out. She gave him the house keys so he could let himself in when he returned.
At around 03:00 hrs, someone called and informed Quincy’s aunt that he was involved in an accident.
“I went to the police station and they say that he at Diamond (the East Bank Demerara Regional Hospital).”
She said that the hospital staffers did not allow her to see her nephew “but a girl who was with me went in…then she said ‘I don’t want you to cry, but Quincy dead.’”
Ms. Marshall said she was then allowed inside and she saw the bodies of her nephew and his friend, Denzil Thomas.
According to information she received, Quincy David was waiting at the Timehri Park for a bus when he was offered a lift home in the car.
And a female relative of Denzil Thomas said that he had accompanied another relative to Georgetown at around 02:00 hrs.
Like Quincy David, they were reportedly awaiting transportation near the Timehri minibus park when Thomas’ cousins, Deion and Curtis Peters, offered them a lift in their car.
Kaieteur News understands that Thomas’ relative managed to board a minibus, while Thomas entered the car.

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