Two teens dead, two others hospitalised after crash

TWO teenagers died and two others suffered injuries, and were hospitalised on Thursday night following a fatal road accident.
The motor car in which they were travelling sped out of control and resulted in a high-speed impact at Providence, East Bank Demerara.

altDead are Corwin Lambert, 16, of Lot 154 Titus Street and his friend, Christopher Chung, 19, of Cato Street, also in Agricola.
The injured are Matilda Gittens, 20, of Mocha/ Arcadia, also on the East Bank Demerara and Stephen Fraser, 18, of Agricola. They are both patients at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) nursing broken limbs among other body injuries.alt
Lambert was pronounced dead on arrival at the GPH Thursday night and Chung succumbed around 03:00 hrs yesterday, while receiving treatment at the same hospital.
Both sustained massive injuries to the head and internal organs.
Reports said the car in which they were travelling had been proceeding South along the East Bank Demerara Highway when the driver lost control at Providence.
The vehicle overtook another but, because of the speed at which it was going, the front wheels got hooked on the median separating the lanes and it ended up wrapped around a utility pole.

Mangled wreck
altFire Chief Marlon Gentle told the Guyana Chronicle that the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) was summoned to the scene around 23:00hrs and two units responded with 12 fire fighters. They worked tirelessly, for about 40 minutes to rescue the two back seat passengers who were trapped in the mangled wreck.
He said the rescue effort was technical but training in motor vehicle rescue as first responders received from a French Fire Service team last month, paid off.
The GFS did a good job in getting out the passengers without further injuring them, Gentle said.alt
He said the ill-fated car was so badly damaged that the rescued two were almost folded up in the smashed wreckage that was practically in two parts. The GFS employed the use of a hydraulic shears (jaws of life). Gentle said eventually they succeeded in getting the duo out and transported them to the Diamond Regional Hospital for medical attention.
Fire fighters at the scene who described the accident as horrific said as they began working to free the trapped Gittens and Fraser, they could have had the use of some assistance for crowd control as many persons there, somehow, prevented them from succeeding quicker.
The GFS ranks said, apart from the speed at which the car was being driven, there was some drinking involved as bottles of alcoholic beverages were seen in wreck.
Meanwhile, Earla Lambert, mother of Lambert told this newspaper, yesterday, that she last saw her son alive on Thursday night, sitting in front of the home of a relative in the village.
The woman, a vendor, said her son was near the car and she asked him if he was going to work and he said he was but was drinking a guinness.
The grieving woman explained that she celebrated her birthday on Wednesday and asked her nephew, Kevin, whose birthday it was on Thursday and was in the company of her son, to buy her a drink and she was given a malta before she left on her way home.

Bad condition
She said she had retired to bed but was awakened by another villager, who told her that her son had been in an accident and was in a bad condition at a hospital, but she never expected him to die in a car accident.
She said, when she reached the hospital, her son was already dead and she just hugged and lay next to him for sometime before he was taken away.
The mother of six added that he had his ways, like any other teenager, but he was her last child, and while he lived with her, they shared the same bed as she had grown so accustomed to him.
Having lost her mother, niece, brother, a cousin and now her son, it is very difficult to cope, she said.
The lad would have been 17 years old on November 20.
The mother, together with relatives of the other deceased teen, Chung, who was also at the GPH mortuary yesterday morning said she was in denial at her son’s demise and did not want to comment.
“As far as I am concerned, my son is not even dead,” she declared.

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