THREE persons were killed yesterday at Relief, East Bank Demerara when the driver of motor car PNN 1696 attempted to overtake a truck and slammed head-on into another vehicle, GNN 3019, proceeding in the opposite direction.

Dead are Suresh Jhaman, 39, driver of the ill-fated car; his reputed wife Indranie Deonarine, 41; and the latter’s 16-year-old daughter, Amanda Deonarine, all of Brickery/Supply, East Bank Demerara.
According to Derrick Harris, an employee of the Amin & Sons Wharf at Relief who witnessed the tragedy, the incident occurred at approximately 10:30hrs.
He detailed his experience to this publication.
“They (the driver and other occupants of PNN 1696) overtake the truck, and I don’t know if they didn’t see this other truck coming down or what, but they didn’t get to go back in the lane… The other truck driver that was proceeding to town-side, when he saw them, he turn out; but they lost control and slammed into that truck,” a still shaken Harris said.
He said the impact from the collision pitched PNN 1696 straight through the concrete fence of the wharf, killing the three occupants on the spot.
Grief-stricken family members of the deceased told the Guyana Chronicle that the three were on their way to Sarah Johanna so that Amanda could see her sister.