Three die on Linden-Mabura road after car hits parked lorry

Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred yesterday at about 9.30 pm on the newly asphalted Linden–Mabura Trail, involving a motor lorry and a hire car, which resulted in the deaths of the driver of the hire car, Marcus Berley, 32, of One Mile, Wismar and passengers Andrew Irving, 52, also of One Mile, Wismar and Maureen Patricia Woodley, 81, a Jamaican-born naturalised USA citizen.

The police say that preliminary investigations revealed that hire car HD 6751 was proceeding west along the southern side of the roadway allegedly at a fast rate 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.