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MRS. Vilma Lynch, the lone survivor of the freak vehicular accident which claimed the lives of three other Guyanese in Nickerie, Friday, was yesterday said to be still warded at the district’s Lachmipersad Mungra Regional Hospital, but in stable condition. This is according to Guyana’s Consul-General to Nickerie, Mr. Arlington Bancroft via telephone last evening. Bancroft said he had twice visited the injured woman in hospital (on Friday night and again yesterday afternoon), and in his estimation, though in pain, she was out of danger.
He recalled that the elderly Lynch, reportedly a retired headmistress, was fully conscious and communicating verbally ever since Friday night, and that consulate members of staff also paid her a visit at the hospital yesterday. He anticipates that the next move would be for the requisite autopsies to be performed, though he could not say exactly when this would be done.
He also confirmed that relatives of the deceased, on learning of the tragedy, had travelled to Suriname yesterday to take care of funeral arrangements.
Those killed in the accident when the SUV motor vehicle PKK 7256 in which they were travelling en route to Paramaribo, ran off the road and ended, belly-up, in a trench are: Charlene Lynch, also known as Monique, said to be a member of the Guyana Police Force and stationed at Timehri; Andrea Isaacs, reputedly a sales representative at the Guyana Trinidad Mutual (GTM) insurance company; and Asa Montana Sauers, 31.
The party of four was said to be travelling en route to Paramaribo and was about 192 kilometres from their destination when tragedy struck. They had reportedly left Guyana early Friday morning and travelled to Nickerie aboard the M.V. Canawaima.
According to Friday’s edition of the Surinamese daily, De Ware Tijd, the accident occurred around 4p.m on the Nickerie Public Road in the vicinity of the rice fields of Surinamese rice magnate, Imro Manglie. They listed the elder Lynch’s age as 72, and surmised that she was the younger Lynch’s stepmother.
They said that at the time of her admittance to hospital, the elderly woman was in such shock that she could not remember what had transpired at the time the accident occurred, much less the names of the three other persons who were travelling with her.
There were also reports that a baby was on board the ill-fated vehicle, but could not be found, despite the best efforts of members of the Nickerie Fire Department which had mounted a search in the canal for the missing child.
He recalled that the elderly Lynch, reportedly a retired headmistress, was fully conscious and communicating verbally ever since Friday night, and that consulate members of staff also paid her a visit at the hospital yesterday. He anticipates that the next move would be for the requisite autopsies to be performed, though he could not say exactly when this would be done.
He also confirmed that relatives of the deceased, on learning of the tragedy, had travelled to Suriname yesterday to take care of funeral arrangements.
Those killed in the accident when the SUV motor vehicle PKK 7256 in which they were travelling en route to Paramaribo, ran off the road and ended, belly-up, in a trench are: Charlene Lynch, also known as Monique, said to be a member of the Guyana Police Force and stationed at Timehri; Andrea Isaacs, reputedly a sales representative at the Guyana Trinidad Mutual (GTM) insurance company; and Asa Montana Sauers, 31.
The party of four was said to be travelling en route to Paramaribo and was about 192 kilometres from their destination when tragedy struck. They had reportedly left Guyana early Friday morning and travelled to Nickerie aboard the M.V. Canawaima.
According to Friday’s edition of the Surinamese daily, De Ware Tijd, the accident occurred around 4p.m on the Nickerie Public Road in the vicinity of the rice fields of Surinamese rice magnate, Imro Manglie. They listed the elder Lynch’s age as 72, and surmised that she was the younger Lynch’s stepmother.
They said that at the time of her admittance to hospital, the elderly woman was in such shock that she could not remember what had transpired at the time the accident occurred, much less the names of the three other persons who were travelling with her.
There were also reports that a baby was on board the ill-fated vehicle, but could not be found, despite the best efforts of members of the Nickerie Fire Department which had mounted a search in the canal for the missing child.
