An 81-year-old woman was killed this morning on the Nigg Public Road, Corentyne while she was using the pedestrian crossing.
The accident occurred around 10:35 hrs.
The deceased has been identified as Parbattie Ramsarran of Lot 4 D Nigg. She died on arrival at the Port Mourant Public Hospital.
The driver, a 29-year-old Robb Street, Georgetown resident has since been arrested. He has passed a breathalyser test.
According to information received, the driver of motorcar, PPP 1008 was proceeding west along the southern carriageway at a fast rate when it struck the elderly woman who was on the centre of the pedestrian crossing.
Ramsarran was crossing the road from south to north when she was struck and killed. She sustained multiple injuries to the head and body and died before she reached the medical institute.
The body is presently at Ramu’s Funeral Home awaiting a post mortem examination.
Ramsarran is the third person to perish on the roadways for this year. The other victims are 60-year-old Donald Mootoo of Lot 13 Bissoon Street, South Better Hope, East Coast Demerara; and 24-year-old Bhojram Hemraj of #67 Village, Corentyne, Berbice.
Hemraj died in the process of negotiating a left turn on the Corentyne Public Road on January 02, last and slammed into a wooden and metal sign board with his motorcycle.
Mootoo, on the other hand, was on his motorcycle, CH 7540 proceeding west along the northern lane on the southern carriageway of the Montrose, East Coast Demerara public road when he lost control while negotiating a turn.
He collided with the median in the centre of the road and died some hours later at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
