ALIYAH Mohabir, 16, who along with her sibling and a primary school child, was struck down by a speeding SUV on Friday, succumbed to her injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation early Saturday morning.

Mohabir and her sister, Aneela Mohabir, 14, were struck by the motor car on the Bush Lot Public Road, East Berbice, Corentyne, on Friday as they were walking on the parapet to visit a friend.

The younger sister remains a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital where she is nursing a fractured leg and pains about the body.

At around noon on Friday, motor car bearing registration number, PXX 5165, was proceeding east along the northern side of the roadway when the driver, identified as Dr. Giresh Sadeo, reportedly swerved to avoid hitting the primary school child who was crossing the road from south to north.

The nine-year-old Roshnie Mohan had just left her grandparents’ house at Kildonan and was making her way across the road to her home at Bush
Lot when the incident occurred.

She was transferred from the Port Mourant Hospital, where she was initially taken, to the New Amsterdam Hospital late Friday evening. Her grandmother told the Guyana Chronicle that the injured child is responsive but is in a lot of pain.

“We are praying and hoping for the best, someone has to be with her all the time, so we are taking turns in going. All she saying is that her body hurting,” the grandmother said.

According to police information, the driver of the car was proceeding east along the northern carriage way when he noticed the child, who was standing on the southern side of the road, suddenly ran into the path of his vehicle.

In an effort to avoid the collision with the child, the driver swerved but struck her, and reportedly lost control of the vehicle and slammed into the two pedestrians who were walking on the parapet.

One of the girls who was struck hit a man who was riding a bicycle while the
other was flung into the air and fell onto the car and then onto the roadway.

The injured girls were picked up and taken to the Port Mourant Hospital.

Aliyah, who was unresponsive, was transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where she succumbed at around 03:00 hrs on Saturday.

Meanwhile, speaking with Guyana Chronicle, the parents of the sisters– Bahwattie Ramrich and Munil Mohabir– were inconsolable as they tried to come to grip with the news that their first born child is no more.

“This is the hardest thing to deal with right now, Aliyah is no more…
I’m so shocked I still can’t believe she is gone,” her mother said.

The devastated parents, amid sobs, related that their daughter had just completed secondary school and had her entire life ahead of her.

The parents further related that the two sisters were inseparable.
They left during her lunch break from the Central Corentyne Secondary School, a short distance away from where the accident occurred.

Aneela is unaware that her older sibling died. Her parents are appealing to the authorities to not let their daughter’s death go in vain.

Guyana chronicle was reliably informed that the driver, Dr. Giresh
Sadeo, who was in police custody, is now a patient at the Port Mourant
Hospital after he complained of feeling unwell.

He was taken to the hospital sometime on Friday evening. Investigations into the accident are still ongoing.