Five-year-old Akeem Hinds, who was on Friday night involved in an accident at Moblissa on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, succumbed yesterday to his injuries in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A grieving Latoya Hinds, the boy’s mother who was being comforted by relatives, told Stabroek News that the pain of losing her child is just unbearable.

Akeem Hinds

The child who was returning to Linden from a funeral with relatives sustained a gaping wound to the head as a result of the accident.

Sixty-one-year-old Leon Yaw of 1st Forest Alley, Wismar, Linden died shortly after motorcar PJJ 356, driven by his nephew Wendell Yaw, slammed into a “parked bush truck” and flipped into a gulley off the Linden-Soesdyke Highway at Moblissa.

Yaw was at the time returning home from his sister’s Georgetown funeral with a car load of relatives when the vehicle slammed into the side of a stationary truck without park lights on.

A shaken Wendell Yaw, 54, of Wismar Housing Scheme, Linden told Stabroek News on the night of the accident that he and his relatives were returning to Linden after attending the funeral when the accident occurred.

Wendell’s wife Paulette was sitting beside him in the front passenger seat while Leon, his brother and wife Colette, 39, along with Akeem Hinds were in the backseat.

Wendell recalled that he was driving in the vicinity of the Moblissa Bridge area when he “came across a truck” parked without its lights on along the side of the highway. He said that by the time he noticed the truck “it was too late” and he couldn’t do much.

After the car came to a halt, Wendell recalled, he immediately slipped from behind the wheel and checked to see if his relatives were alright. The man said he called out and asked if they were all fine and everyone, but Leon, responded.

It wasn’t until Wendell managed to turn on the car’s interior light that they discovered Leon motionless and a gaping wound in the child’s head. He and the other survivors grabbed Hinds and climbed out of the gulley. They stopped a minibus which transported them to the Linden Hospital. Paulette, Colette, the driver and Leon’s brother sustained minor injuries.