After indulging in a Mother’s Day celebration at her Foulis, West Coast Berbice home a 51-year-old woman was struck down by a car, PMM 8310 at Moor Park/Number 37 Village around 8.15 pm on Sunday.
Marslyn True’s lifeless body was taken to Fort Wellington Hospital mortuary where the identity was confirmed after 2 pm yesterday.
Before that, staff at the hospital kept wondering who the woman might be. Someone then went into the mortuary and took a photograph of the body – with the intention of having it published – and showed it to them and some of them recognised her.
The police were then contacted and they visited the woman’s home where they picked up her daughter, Carlotta True and took her to confirm her identity.
Reports are that the driver of the car, said to be a doctor from the Corentyne, kept on driving, apparently not realising that he
had hit someone.
It happened that an off-duty police officer was travelling in another vehicle behind the doctor’s and witnessed the accident.
The officer contacted ranks at the Fort Wellington Station and provided them with the registration number of the car. A roadblock was set up and the driver was apprehended and the vehicle detained.
Police said in a release that “investigations have revealed that the driver of motor vehicle PMM 8310 was proceeding along the roadway, allegedly at a fast rate, and collided with the pedestrian.”
The woman’s ex-husband, Martin Bobb, who lives in the upper flat, said Carlotta had cooked a big pot of food on Sunday and they were having a get-together with some friends.
Around 7.30 pm True, who was under the influence of alcohol, left with her friends to go to the nearby Belladrum Village even though Bobb and her daughter tried to stop her.
After sometime passed and she did not return home, Carlotta went in search of her mother at Belladrum but only met the friends who could not say where she had gone.
She returned home and made calls to a male companion who was reportedly supposed to pick True up at Belladrum and some of her other friends but the calls went unanswered.
Bobb said when the police arrived at his home around 1.45 pm, he did not imagine it was because True had died and the news took him by surprise.
