3 die after speeding car slams into parked trailer along Mabura Trail

Three persons are Guyana’s latest road fatalities after a speeding car slammed into a parked trailer along the newly asphalted Linden-Mabura Trail on Thursday evening. 

Dead are Marcus Berley, 32; Andrew Irvin, 52 , both of One Mile, Wismar, and Maureen Patricia Woodley, 81, a Jamaican-born naturalized USA citizen. 

Preliminary investigations revealed that a hire car bearing registration number HD 6751 was proceeding west along the southern side of the roadway allegedly at a fast rate of speed when it collided with the right rear of motor lorry GJJ 4000 with trailer TSS 4613, which was parked along the southern side of the road facing west. 

As a result of the collision, the driver and two occupants of the hire car sustained injuries and were taken to the Linden Hospital Complex in an unconscious state , where they were seen, examined, and pronounced dead on arrival by a doctor on duty. 

The driver of the motor lorry, a 36-year-old male of Craig, East Bank Demerara , is presently in police custody assisting with the investigation. 

Investigations are ongoing.