Latest update April 16th, 2026 4:35 PM
Stewartville woman killed by speeding driver
A 33-year-old woman was killed at around 19.00 hrs yesterday at Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, by a speeding driver who ignored pleas by the victim’s brother to take her to a hospital.
Dead: Vanessa Forde
Forde, who worked at an internet café, was hurled into a trench and was pronounced dead on arrival at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.
Eyewitnesses said that the driver fled the scene but was later arrested at a relative’s home and detained at the Leonora Police Station. The victim was reportedly standing on the West Coast Demerara public road, near Stewartville, with her mother, six-year-old son and other relatives when the tragedy occurred.
Her mother, Olnie Forde, said that Vanessa was waiting on her brother, before heading to her home, when a car, which was heading west, “came at one speed” and struck her daughter, who was holding a bicycle at the time.
Mrs. Forde said that after the car had passed, she looked around, but did not see her daughter. “I say where my daughter deh?”
She said that Vanessa’s brother, who had just arrived at the scene, saw his sister lying in a nearby trench.
The brother, Sheldon Forde, said the driver who had struck his sister stopped a short distance away. He told Kaieteur News that he ran to the vehicle, and saw that a woman and a child were also inside.
“I run up to the car and tell he (the driver) to take my sister to the hospital and he just drive away.” However, he managed to see and memorise the licence number.
Eventually, a minibus driver took the injured woman to the West Coast Demerara Regional Hospital, but doctors were unable to save her.
A distraught Sheldon Forde noted that his sister and relatives were standing near a street-lamp, and should have been clearly visible to the driver.
“Just like that this man kill my sister? He didn’t see her?”
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