Chesney woman dies after colliding with low bed truck
A Corentyne mother of four died yesterday after she collided with a truck and trailer along the Albion, Corentyne Public Road
Dead is Christina Ramu, 41, who operates a stand in front of her house at Kilcoy Chesney, Corentyne.
According to information gathered, the accident occurred around 12.20 pm yesterday, after Ramu dropped her grandson at the Cropper Primary School. She was proceeding home on her bicycle when, upon exiting the Cropper Primary School Street, she reportedly collided with the truck, GLL 7901 with trailer TNN 6629, which was loaded with a combine at the time.
Residents were not clear as to whether the woman collided with the trailer or the protruding combine. Police, in a brief statement on Ramu’s death, said she was struck by the combine’s extension.
She was rushed to the Port Mourant Public Hospital, where she succumbed while receiving medical attention. It is suspected that she suffered a fractured skull.
“She ride out the street and she na stop and the thing been a pass same time and she knock,” an eyewitness yesterday told this publication. “She pitch till to the corner deh (on the parapet),” the witness related.
Meanwhile, the driver of the truck was placed under arrest at the Albion Police Station yesterday as an investigation was launched. He, however, was overheard telling a police officer at the scene that ‘me na wrong” as he detailed his account of what had transpired.
The driver is the brother of the businessman whose building was destroyed in a fire yesterday afternoon at Number 64 Village, Corentyne.
Ramu was described as a hardworking woman.