A three-year-old lost his life yesterday when he was struck down by a speeding car on East Coast Demerara road near the entrance to the Golden Grove Secondary School.
Dead is Ashton Sears of Lot 209 Haslington New Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara. The incident reportedly occurred sometime between 4.30 and 5 pm.
The driver is currently in police custody assisting with investigations.
Speaking with Stabroek News last evening, Sears’s mother Ms Murphy said she and her husband and three children were walking to the seawall not far away to fly kites. Ashton and his older sister were walking with their parents while the youngest was in a stroller.
Murphy said they stopped so that her husband could adjust the baby’s stroller and they were all standing when she saw a car approaching with speed.
In the blink of an eye, she said, she saw her son on the ground motionless. At the time of the accident, she said, the child was standing next to his elder sister. “The car come with one speed from the seawall and hit him just like that,” the mother lamented.
According to Murphy, he was picked up by the driver of the car and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he succumbed.
As the grieving mother composed herself to speak with Stabroek News, the child’s father stood next to her shaking his head in shock.
Murphy recalled the driver saying that he was not focusing on where he was going at the time of the incident.
Ashton was the second of three children and is survived by his parents and two siblings.
