Family in despair as older sister involved in Bush Lot accident dies

Feb 16, 2020 News

One of the teenagers involved in the accident at Bush Lot Village, Corentyne, Berbice has succumbed to her injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where she was transferred.

Dead: Aliya Mohabir

Surviving sister: Aneela Mohabir

Injured: Roshini Mohan

Kaieteur News was informed that Aliya Mohabir, 16, died just around 03:00 hrs yesterday. She was picked up in an unconscious state after the accident and was hospitalised in a critical condition at the New Amsterdam Hospital. She was subsequently transferred to the GPHC after her condition worsened. According to a relative, “she was brain dead and suffered internal bleeding, they could not save her.”
She was struck along with her sister Aneela Mohabir, 14, who remains hospitalised. Another lass, Roshini Mohan, 9, was first hit with a Nissan X-trail owned and driven by a 31-year-old doctor from Number 72 Village who is attached to the Skeldon Hospital.
The doctor was subsequently arrested and his vehicle was lodged, inspected and released at the Whim Police Station. However, police sources have since disclosed that the medical professional complained of feeling unwell while in custody and was admitted to the Port Mourant Hospital yesterday.
Police had indicated that a breathalyzer test was conducted on the driver and it showed he had no alcohol in his system when the accident occurred.
According to the police, the X-trail vehicle, bearing licence plate number PXX 5165, was heading east along the northern carriageway of the road “at a normal rate of speed when the driver alleged that he saw the child in her school uniform (Mohan) on the southern side of the said road suddenly dashed across the road from south to north into the path of his vehicle.” It was after he struck Mohan that he “applied brakes and pulled left…” but ended up on the northern footpath and collided with the Mohabir sisters who were walking on the said footpath.
Mother of the two teenagers, Bashwattie Rambrich, told reporters that her now dead daughter was only accompanying her younger sister to the shop located near her school (Bush Lot Secondary) to purchase a Valentine’s Day gift for her (Aneela) teacher.
Meanwhile, Roshini Mohan who is a student of the Kildonan Primary School was heading back to school on foot from her grandmother’s house (located a lot away) when she attempted to cross the road and was hit.
“She just left my house and told me she going back to school but it ain’t meet three seconds and me hear a impact, so me start holler out for she and me run out and see she pon the road. Me neighbour dem come out and pick she up and take she to the hospital,” the grandmother said. According to the woman, her granddaughter’s body was “two feet away from the white line and there was no pedestrian crossing nearby.” She confirmed that little Mohan was crossing the road when she was hit.