A combination of speed and alcohol has left a US-based Guyanese dead after two Toyota vehicles slammed into each other around midnight on Thursday on the Railway Embankment at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.
Dead is Osnah Jordon, 39, who was seated in the front passenger’s seat of the Toyota Allion car, PNN 4182, which was headed to Industry, East Coast Demerara. The other car, a Toyota Premio, PPP 1802, which was travelling in the opposite direction, reports said, crashed head on into the Allion,
sending it tumbling into a nearby trench. The driver of the speeding car, who was said to be unlicensed, subsequently fled the scene on foot leaving the wreckage and injured persons behind.
According to a police press release, investigations revealed that the driver of PPP 1802, who was driving at a fast rate, had lost control of the vehicle.
However, Jordon’s family said they were told that the driver of PPP 1802 was drunk as well as unlicensed. “All of them were drunk ’cause apparently they were coming down to town from the Guinness Bar in Plaisance when they hit my sister,” Jordon’s younger sister Patricia Alves told Stabroek News yesterday. The distraught Alves said she was told that the owner of the Premio was too intoxicated to drive and had asked a friend to drive. “There were three men in the car and all of them were drunk. She just come back home to see her family this Christmas…,” Alves said.
“I heard last [Thursday] night that she came in the country and this morning [yesterday] I get a call that she was in an accident and dead. I didn’t even get to see her. I thought I would have seen her today but I didn’t get to see her,” she lamented. Jordon would have celebrated her fortieth birthday yesterday.
A resident of Liliendaal said the noise from the collision woke her up. “When we get up, I saw a car in the trench and some people taking a man out from the car on the road [PPP 1802] and he was hollering for pain in his foot,” Aunty Rose (only name given) said.
She related that the people on the scene were focused on getting the men out of the car on the road. “Is then when someone holler and said that a woman in the car [that was in the trench] that they drag her out by her foot and put her on the road,” she recalled.
Another eyewitness said that driver and another man from car on the road walked away from the scene. “[Two of the men] from the Premio start to walk down the line so when the police came… them de done gone,” the man said. He said a third man remained in the car crying out for pain in his foot. “Y’all help! Y’all help! I can’t move is what he was saying so we run out and help him… The other man from the car with the woman was crying that his sister dead and that he had to call his mother because it was the second death in the family for the year.”
Yesterday the owner of the Premio was giving statements to the police.
Jordon, who resided in the USA, leaves to mourn her husband, one daughter and her siblings.
