Driver in Land of Canaan accident succumbs

Marvin Wray, who was listed as critical following an accident at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara last Sunday, yesterday succumbed to his injuries. A relative yesterday confirmed that the 27-year-old South Ruimveldt Gardens resident died around 1 pm, while still a patient of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital. Reports are that Wray and four others had travelled to the Soesdyke Highway earlier that day to celebrate a friend’s birthday at the creek and were returning to Georgetown when the accident occurred around 19:30 hrs.

Marvin Wray

According to a friend, it was a large group which travelled in separate vehicles. He explained that Wray drove ahead of the others who followed closely behind and he saw when an “old car come out of a wedding house and mek a u-turn in front of Marvin”. Persons who gathered at the hospital had said that Wray was pinned in the driver’s seat of the vehicle. During the exercise to free Wray, the driver of the other vehicle reportedly managed to escape on foot, leaving his car behind. Wray was rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where he was immediately hooked up to a life support machine. He was subsequently transported to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he received immediate attention at the Accident and Emergency Unit.

Though he was in an unconscious state relatives were hopeful after he began breathing on his own an hour after the accident.

The others injured in the accident were Wray’s sister Odess Baker, his girlfriend Faith Evelyn and two of his friends, Lancelott Rose and Andrew Watson.