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Accident at Liliendaal leaves one dead, several injured
A fatal accident which occurred in the wee hours of the morning yesterday, on the Liliendaal Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara has left one dead and four injured.
Osnah Jordan
Police reports state that shortly after midnight, motor vehicle PNN4182 was travelling along the roadway, when the driver of another motor car, PPP1802, travelling at a fast rate lost control of the vehicle and collided head-on with PNN4182.
It was further reported that the driver of PPP1802 fled the scene. The injured were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where they were treated. However, Osnah Jardine, a passenger of PNN4182, was pronounced dead on arrival.
Jardine, 39, resided in Brooklyn, New York in the United States of America with her husband and 18-year-old daughter. During her visit to Guyana, she was staying with one of her brothers at Industry, East Coast Demerara.
According to one brother, Sherwin Dellon, Osnah who had migrated some eight years ago, had decided to surprise them with a visit for the holidays and had landed in Guyana on December 13.
Dellon said that his sister would have been celebrating her birthday yesterday and was in the process of preparing lunch for the Children of the St Anne’s Orphanage. This, according to him, is an annual practice for Jardine.
“Normally on her birthday, she sends money to feed the children but this year she came in to do it herself.” he said.
Sherwin lamented that the day before the accident, his sister had ventured to a hair dressing salon and he was supposed to pick her up. She had however, called and informed him that she would be spending some time with her friends.
Dellon said that though he was concerned, his sister insisted that her friends would take her back to another brother’s residence on East Coast Demerara.
He recalled that he was in his room when he heard a banging on his wall. He said that his friend Dwayne woke him up saying “Ozo deh in an accident and at the hospital. Leh we go.”
He then rushed to the hospital and was greeted with the news of his sister’s demise. “Nobody expected her to go at this age. We expected to grow old together and dying some way other than that.”
Dellon said that the driver, James, was unconscious for several hours but he later recovered. He also added that the owner of the car which collided with the one that he sister was in has claimed that he was not the driver at the time of the accident.
Police investigations are ongoing.
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