Vigilance girl hit by car succumbs

Leota Eastman

Leota Eastman, the 14-year-old girl who was struck down by a car while riding her bicycle in the vicinity of Company Road, Buxton, East Coast Demerara on Saturday, died at the Georgetown Public Hospital early yesterday morning.

Eastman of Vigilance, East Coast Demerara, passed away sometime after 12am in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

She had never regained consciousness after the accident,