A woman is dead and two persons were critically injured after a speeding car crashed into another one on the Hutsonville Public Road, East Bank Demerara yesterday around 6.30 pm. Dead is Jane Ivy Thompson, 64, of Linden.
Her grieving relatives told Stabroek News last night that the woman’s daughter Neshell Egland who was also involved in the accident is in a critical condition along with Neshell’s husband, Edward Egland. The couple’s six-year-old son, Edward Egland Jr suffered a broken foot and was also admitted to the Georgetown Hospital last night.
A number of other persons from the car which caused the accident were also listed as stable at the hospital last night.
Stabroek News was told that Edward Egland was driving a red car. The family was returning to Linden after a visit to Berbice. Reports are that as the family 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 Egland’s vehicle. Relatives of the dead woman said that the occupants of Egland’s car felt the full brunt of the impact.
Hospital sources said that Neshell’s condition was critical and she would need blood urgently. The woman’s husband’s face was covered with blood when Stabroek News saw him at the hospital yesterday.
A number of persons assisted in transporting the injured to the hospital. Thompson’s relatives said that she was alive when she arrived at the hospital, but died while undergoing treatment. At the hospital there was heavy traffic as vehicles transporting the injured drove into the compound with the accident victims. Stabroek News was told that the car that was returning from the creek was speeding. Road accidents of this kind have occurred frequently over the past months resulting in the deaths of many. Traffic officers up to late last evening were busy taking statements from eyewitnesses as they carried out their investigations.
