By Shirley Thomas
TWO of nine persons, injured in an accident along Soesdyke/Linden Highway on Monday morning, were still critically ill at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday.

They are 30-year-old Dharwattie Yasseen, of J5 Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara, who is in the High Dependency Unit (HDU) and five-year-old Cindy Thakurdyal, of St. Cuthbert’s Mission, Demerara River, in the Paedeatric Ward.

Both are suffering severe head injuries and Yasseen was fitted with a neck brace while the girl suffered bleeding in the brain and a broken right wrist.

Her mother, Gena Simon said she was not responding to anyone, even when her eyes are open.

Others hurt, in the head-on collision between two motor cars, PHH 6771 and PLL 7548 around 05:00 h, are Madonna Simon, 40, Floyd Andrews 35, Earl Simon 38 and Crispin Ferreira, 70, all from St. Cuthbert’s Mission, too.

Meanwhile, injured along with Thakurdyal, but not hospitalised, were her nine year-old sister, Akima Perreira; two-year-old brother, Makahaya Perreira and their mother, Simon 32; the driver of one car whose name was given only as Thomas and three-year-old Troy Mitchell.

They were treated at Diamond Diagnostic Centre and sent away.

Simon, weeping at Thakurdyal’s bedside, said they had left St. Cuthbert’s on the way to her sister-in-law’s home, at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, when the other car, speeding in the opposite direction, overtook a truck and slammed into their car.

The children were sleeping but the crash hurled some of the occupants out of the vehicle and others remained trapped in the badly wrecked vehicles.

The five-year-old was with her grandfather, 70-year-old Crispin Perreira, in the front seat and they bore the brunt of the injuries.

Yasseen was travelling in the front seat of the other car which Thomas was driving.