Fourth victim succumbs in Highway smash up

Georgetown: Three persons died on Wednesday evening following a head-on collision between two Toyota Spacio motorcars on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway. A fourth victim succumbed Thursday morning. 

Dead is Dextroy Griffith, a 22-year old mechanic and 52-year-old taxi driver, David Primus; both men are said to be residents of Amelia’s Ward, Linden while a third person who was driving one of the two cars involved in the accident, died following the collision. He is said to be an employee of the BOSAI bauxite company; however he is yet to be identified. A fourth victim, Rawle Aron succumbed Thursday morning. Those injured are Aleta Shepherd and Lerone Mendonca and another unidentified individual.

Reports are that Primus was driving a Toyota Spacio, bearing registration HC 5326 while the unidentified driver was behind the wheels of the other vehicle, registered PRR 7151, when the two collided.

According to reports from Linden, Primus was heading to the city along with Griffith, Griffith’s wife, Whitney and three other persons at the time. Griffith’s wife and the passengers are currently hospitalised at the Linden Hospital Complex and medical personnel reported that their conditions are stable.

Dextroy Griffith died on the spot; he was a passenger in the taxi, heading to Georgetown

Reports are that the highway was wet around 18:00hrs when the two vehicles collided in the vicinity

of Camp Soweyo near the Loo Creek area. The two drivers were attempting to overtake two container log trucks, which were parked along the highway at the time of the collision.

A large crowd gathered at the scene and rescuers were forced to cut-open the two vehicles to extract the men’s bodies after which they were rushed to the Linden Hospital complex.Following Wednesday evening’s accident, fresh calls were made for lights to be placed along the highway. Police are investigating the accident.