Mother to undergo surgery
Stabroek News
November 5, 2002
Basmattie De Souza, the mother of the two children killed by an out-of-control racing car at the South Dakota Circuit Sunday, is expected to undergo surgery for injuries she sustained during the collision.
This is according to the family of the woman, who has since been admitted to the St Joseph’s Mercy Hospital along with Sandy and Keisha Singh who were also injured in Sunday’s accident which took the lives of their cousins.
Three-year-old Ashton and his sister, six-year-old Dyna were both killed when English racing driver David Brodie lost control of his Ford Cosworth Sierra, which broke through a chain-link fence and slammed into a minibus, in which they had been sitting.
Recounting the incident for Stabroek Sports, Brodie, who returned to Guyana for the (Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) sponsored Gavin Narine International motor racing meet, said “the throttle was jammed open. There was nothing I could do.... When I came off the brakes the car did not slow down.
With the brakes locked I could not steer the car properly. It was only when I was about 100-120 feet away that I realised that children were sitting in the back of the minibus.”
While Brodie was uninjured following the collision both children were later pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital, where their mother and cousins underwent surgery for injuries they sustained. Another relative, Azeemoon Azeez, was also injured in the collision but was later discharged from the hospital.
On arrival at the hospital De Souza, whose face had been scratched in the collision, complained about severe head pains, while 17-year-old Sandy, whose head was bandaged, bled from her nose and seven-year-old Keisha had one of her legs bandaged.
The injured trio were subsequently moved to the St Joseph’s Mercy Hospital, where according to family, they are all in stable condition.
Speaking with the family yesterday Stabroek News was informed that De Souza would have to undergo surgery as a result of injuries to one of her legs while both Sandy and Keisha Singh, are expected to be discharged today.