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Aug 11, 2017 News
Heading home from visiting her daughter, 69-year-old Chitraykha Sankar disembarked from a
bus, only to be struck down by a truck while attempting to cross the East Bank Demerara public road.
The accident occurred at around 06.11 hrs yesterday, just a few yards from the Lot 61 Houston, East Bank Demerara, where the mother of seven lived.
Security cameras from a nearby business place recorded the horrific incident from beginning to end.
The CCTV footage shows Mrs. Sankar exiting the bus on the western carriageway. She then begins to cross the carriageway, and almost reaches the other side before the truck, GMM 6594, which is heading north, strikes her and hurls her onto the roadway.
It is unclear how the driver failed to see Mrs. Sankar, since the road appeared to be relatively clear of traffic at the time.
Police said that the victim was hurled some 20 feet, and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital. Police have identified the driver, who has been detained, as a 58-year-old resident of Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara.
A relative of Sankar’s said that the pensioner had just returned from visiting a daughter, who lives in Diamond Housing Scheme.
A neighbour of the victim told Kaieteur News that her father saw when the driver struck down Sankar. She said that the driver appeared to be unaware that he had struck someone, and only stopped after her father repeatedly shouted at him.
She said that her father pulled Mrs. Sankar from beneath the vehicle. The woman was reportedly still alive, but succumbed shortly after.
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