ONE person died and two others have been hospitalized after a motor vehicle accident on Cotton Tree Public Road, West Coast Berbice (WCB) around 02:00hrs on Monday morning.

According to the police, the accident involved motor car with registration PWW 5977, driven at the time by Rajendra Deonarine, a 22-year-old of Bath Settlement, WCB, with two occupants, a 29-year-old female and a 20-year-old male, and motor car with registration PTT 7168 driven by now deceased Carlton Maltay, a 60-year-old of East Canje, Berbice.

Maltay also had two occupants in his vehicle at the time, Jurjan MacAndrew and Auria Maltay.

Enquiries disclosed that motor car PTT 7168 was proceeding east on the northern drive lane at a fast rate. While negotiating a turn, Maltay lost control of the vehicle and collided with motor car PWW 5977, which was proceeding west along the southern drive lane.

As a result of the collision, the driver of motor car PTT 7168 and occupants Auria Maltay and Jurjan MacAndrew received injuries and were picked up in an unconscious condition and taken to the Fort Wellington Public Hospital, where Auria and Jurjan were seen and examined by a doctor on duty, then transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where they were admitted.

Carlton Maltay was pronounced dead on arrival and his body is presently lying at the Fort Wellington Public Hospital Mortuary.
The other vehicle’s driver, Rajendra Deonarine, was admitted to the Fort Wellington Public Hospital for observation. The two occupants in his vehicle were not injured.

Investigations are ongoing.