Guyanese woman, son die in NY crash

Angeli Persaud

A Guyanese mother and her son died on Friday afternoon in New York after their car veered off a road and hit a tree, the Times Union newspaper has reported.

According to the report, Mervyn Albert, 30, was driving his mother home to Schenectady, New York when he lost control of the vehicle on a back road. His mother Angeli Persaud, 56, was in the passenger seat. The accident occurred at around 2.20 pm in broad daylight in what the report said was dry road conditions.

The report said that Persaud was a home health aide who cared for an elderly woman but did not have her