RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

A 54-year-old woman from Ca­roni died hours af­ter she sus­tained in­juries from be­ing struck by a ve­hi­cle, while she was at­tempt­ing to cross the road.  The ac­ci­dent oc­curred on Wednes­day night.

The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as Sura­jdeo Du­rant of South­bank Road in Ca­roni.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 7:20 pm, a man of St He­le­na was dri­ving west along the Ca­roni South Bank Road in his white Nis­san Xtrail.  On reach­ing the vicin­i­ty of KVS Su­per­mar­ket, the man told po­lice he felt an im­pact on the left side of the ve­hi­cle.

He said he stopped and got out to make checks and dis­cov­ered an East In­di­an woman ly­ing on the road­way with a wound to the back of her head.

She was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex where she was treat­ed.  How­ev­er, she suc­cumbed to her in­juries ear­ly on Thurs­day morn­ing.