Car slams into parked truck, kills UK citizen

Aug 18, 2016 News

Car slamed into the side of this truck

– Daughter injured

A 58-year-old female British citizen was killed and her daughter injured while on their way to the airport, when the vehicle in which they were travelling, crashed into a parked truck on the Chelsea Public Road, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara around 05:15 hrs yesterday.
The dead woman has been identified as Bibi Haroon O’Donovan, of 15 Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice.
Her daughter, 23-year-old Scheneza Lewis, also a British Citizen, sustained fractures of the neck, jawbone and ribs. She is in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

The car involved in the accident

O’Donovan and her daughter migrated to England more than 20 years ago. At the time of the accident, they were returning to their home, having spent three weeks in Guyana.
Police in a release said that investigations so far revealed that the overseas-based Guyanese were passengers in motor car HC 6753 which was proceeding west along the Chelsea Public Road, at a fast rate, when the driver lost control and crashed into the rear of a stationary lorry, on the opposite side of the road.
They were rushed to Mahaicony Public Hospital where O’Donovan was pronounced dead on arrival, while Lewis, in an unconscious state, was referred to the GPHC.
The driver of the vehicle, who escaped without injuries, is in police custody assisting with the investigation.
The 23-year-old’s father, Daniel Lewis said that he and O’Donovan separated when she migrated but he was in touch with his daughter, who visited him often.

23-year-old Scheneza Lewis

Dead: Bibi Haroon O’Donovan

“They were heading to the airport in a taxi when the accident happened. A friend with a lorry came and picked me up and brought me to the scene at Mahaica Bridge. I was told that the car slammed into the back of the truck and my daughter’s mother lost her life and she was injured,” the older Lewis said.
According to the man, his ex-partner owned a house in Cotton Tree, and whenever she visited, she would stay there with her daughter and relatives would visit.
Lewis said that he visited his daughter the night before the accident and they had a hearty chat.
“She told me that she planning to get married in Italy and she want me to go. She said that she would be coming back in December to fix my papers,” the devastated man said.
He explained that when he saw the 23-year-old at the GPHC, she could not speak and would only show signs.
When this newspaper approached O’Donovan’s relatives yesterday, they refused to speak to the media.
To date, 83 persons have lost their lives in accidents countrywide.
So far, only six convictions for offences of causing death by dangerous driving were handed down in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Driving under the influence of alcohol, speeding and inattentiveness were proven to be the causes of fatal accidents.

1 thoughts on “Car slams into parked truck, kills UK citizen”

Linden Sinclair August 19, 2016 at 12:10 am

why is the guyana police so facetious, the truck has no reflectors and is parked on the dark road ….now they say speeding…..what happen to safety first ?