A New Amsterdam woman died on Saturday evening after she was struck down by a motor car along the Fort Canje Public Road.
Dead is Raquel Edwards, 39, a clothes vendor, of Smithfield, New Amsterdam.
Police in a statement yesterday morning said that motor car PNN 3631 was being driven by a mechanic, 34, of Stevedore, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown, when the accident occurred.
According to the statement, on Saturday evening sometime before 9 pm the motor car was proceeding east along the northern carriageway of the road reportedly at a fast rate of speed “and according to the driver whilst negotiating a right bend the pedal cyclist who was said to be proceeding in the same direction suddenly turned right into his path and a collision occurred”.
Edwards, who sustained serious injuries about her body, was rushed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital in an unconscious state where she succumbed to her injuries two hours later.
Meanwhile, the driver, who fled the scene of the accident was shortly after arrested.
According to the police, the man passed a breathalyser
test which was administered after he was arrested.
He reportedly told investigators that he was travelling to visit relatives and friends in the ancient county.
Edwards’s older sister, Natasha Bruce, yesterday stated, that her sister, a mother of one, was present at the Burnham Ground visiting the guards there and had left on her bicycle to return home when she was struck.
“We go hospital they hustling to put she pon oxygen and then she just dead”.
The woman noted, that the family would now have to come together and decide the way forward.
Edwards would have celebrated her 40th birthday today.
