Driver and passengers in a hire car were killed Thursday night after the vehicle slammed into the rear of a parked motor lorry on the newly asphalted Linden–Mabura Trail.
Police said the accident occurred around 21:30 hrs and involved a hire car, HD 6751, and a motor lorry, GJJ 4000, with trailer TSS 4613. The dead are the hire car’s driver, Marcus Berley, 32, of One Mile, Wismar, and passengers Andrew Irvin, 52, also of One Mile, Wismar, and Maureen Patricia Woodley, 81, a Jamaican-born naturalised U.S. citizen.
According to preliminary investigations, the hire car was travelling west along the southern side of the roadway, allegedly at a high speed, when it collided with the right-rear of the motor lorry and trailer, which were 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 examined and pronounced dead on arrival by a doctor on duty.
The driver of the motor lorry, a 36-year-old man of Craig, East Bank Demerara, is in police custody as investigations continue.
