Another East Bank collision victim dies

Another victim from the two-car East Bank Demerara smash-up that occurred on Sunday, died yesterday at the Georgetown Hospital without regaining consciousness.

Dead is Neshall Edward of Second Street, Silvertown Linden.

At the time of her death around 3:45 pm she was a patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and was hooked up to a life support machine.

Five others are still hospitalised at the same medical institution from the accident that also claimed the life of 64-year-old Jane Ivy Thompson, also of Second Street, Silvertown. Edwards is her daughter.

On Sunday evening two cars collided on the Hutsonville Public Road, East Bank Demerara. One of the cars, a burgundy Carina AT 192, in which Thompson, Edwards, her husband Egland and their son six-year-old Egland Jr were travelling, was heading to Linden.

The second car, a white Carina 212, in which Lennox Wong, Madonna Persaud and Wayne Porter were travelling, was heading north into Georgetown.

Reports are that as the burgundy Carina got to Hutsonville, the other car, travelling to the city with a group, which had been on an outing at one of the creeks on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway tried to overtake another vehicle and crashed into the burgundy car that Egland was driving.

They were all picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Hospital but Thompson succumbed to the injuries she sustained while undergoing treatment.

Edwards who sustained massive head injuries was admitted to the ICU.

Egland sustained injuries to his legs since they where pinned by the steering wheel following the impact of the accident while his son Egland Jr is in the paediatric ward with a fractured foot.

Wong suffered leg injuries and is in the accident ward, while Persaud sustained head and back injuries. (Zoisa Fraser)