Sisters killed by speeding driver were sitting in bus shed

Dec 31, 2018 News

The two women who were struck and killed by a speeding driver on Saturday were sitting in a bus shed at Marudi Public Road, Linden/Soesdyke Highway when the accident occurred.

Dead: Elsa Fernandes

Dead: Melva Lucus

The women are also clothes vendors and the main financial providers for their homes.
Fifty-four-year-old Melva Lucus and 51-year-old Elsa Fernandes, both of Grant Sand Road, Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, were killed at around 16:45 hours when a Toyota with registration plates PRR 3606, ploughed into the bus shed. A 28-year-old resident of Kuru Kururu was behind the wheel.
The vehicle was said to be proceeding north along the western side of the Marudi Public Road at a fast rate of speed. Witnesses claim the driver was racing with two other cars.
The driver in a statement to police alleged that he swerved to avoid hitting another car, which was proceeding south along the western lane. The driver also said in his defence that he then struck a bus shed on the western parapet where the two sisters were seated.
Pieces of the vehicle’s number plate were still under the bus shed. Indications are that the car would have veered off the main highway and ended up some fifteen feet to the area where the sisters sat. The sisters were then hurled several feet across an access road that leads into one of the hill-side communities.
The women were pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Regional Hospital.
Kaieteur News also visited the family home, which was located in a hill top community in the Soesdyke area.
Preparations were being made to bury the sisters. The younger sister, Fernandes is survived by her husband and two teenage children, while her older sister, Lucus leaves to mourn some six kids, her husband and grandchildren. The victims are also survived by their mother and six other siblings.
Police said that the driver passed a breathalyzer test. He remains in custody.

The bus shed where the sisters were sitting, while a resident points to the location where their bodies came to rest.

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