GUYANESE Vabita Arjune, a U.S.-based home health aide and single parent of four, succumbed on Thursday November 7, 2019 at the Jamaica Hospital, nine days after being the victim of a hit- and-run accident on October 29.

According to a New York Daily Mail article, the Brooklyn resident was always running somewhere and on the day in question, she was scooting from the laundromat to the supermarket when a speeding driver plowed his vehicle into her.
She was admitted to the Jamaica Hospital and finally succumbed to her massive injuries Thursday, leaving two sons and two daughters to deal with the heartbreak of her sudden and violent demise.

“Mom is all we had,” said daughter Davinine Boodhu, 25, who came to the U.S. with her family in 2008. “Yeah, you have family members. But it’s never going to be the same. It’s going to take some time to adjust — a really long time.”

The 50-year-old Arjune had just left her 13-year-old daughter in the laundromat and was crossing Liberty Avenue in East New York; that was when the grey sedan crashed into her around 7:30 p.m., two blocks away from the family’s home. The driver sped off into the night as cops still search for answers and a suspect who possibly ran a red light before the fatal accident, police sources said.

In addition to her two daughters, Arjune is survived by two sons aged 24 and 23 — and both were quick to take advantage of their mom’s hospitality and her tasty way around a kitchen.
“She loved entertaining,” said Boodhu. “My brothers say everyday they come home, they get a home-cooked meal … If you come here, you’re going to leave with your tummy full — and also be taking food home.”

On the night before the accident, the family had gathered to celebrate the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali. The mourning children, under Hindu religious tradition, will not celebrate another event until a full year has passed since Arjune’s death. The victim’s husband died years ago in a freak electrocution before Arjune and the children came to New York, the New York Daily Mail reported.

Boodhu said her younger sister was waking up and weeping in the middle of the night since the death, and she recounted how one of her mother’s healthcare patients was crushed by the killing.
“When I broke the news to her, she started crying,” the daughter recalled. “Her patient even came to visit her in the hospital.”

Arjune was known for buying gifts for everyone, from her own kids to the families of invalids, to random relatives, and for her special curry dishes.
“Very lively,” recalled Boodhu. “Never a dull moment” and although devastated, the daughter is not demanding an eye for an eye,

“He hit her and fled,” said Boodhu, “Even if they could find him, it’s not going to bring her back. She’s gone.”