A woman was killed instantly as she bent over to pick up her handbag along the Solomon Hochoy Highway. Marisa Rambharose, 42, was crossing the northbound lane of the highway to get to her Springvalle, Claxton Bay, home around 8.30 pm on Saturday.
She was struck by the mirror of one car and her handbag fell. As she bent over to pick it up another car slammed into her dragging her body metres away, an eyewitness said.
Rambharose, a domestic worker, who lived alongside the southbound lane of the highway, was returning home after visiting her daughter in Marabella. The Guardian visited the woman’s home yesterday, but the house was empty. Neighbours said Rambharose with her two sons, ages seven and 18. Neighbour Roger Danglade said he was sitting on his front porch with a pair of binoculars when the accident happened.
“She was already crossing. I saw one car hit her and swerve but the second car slam straight into her as she bend to pick up her bag. “That car dragged her quite down there,” he said, pointing to the spot where Rambharose’s body ended up. “I really sorry she ended up like that, she was really trying her best to give the two boys everything she could.”
He said her seven-year-old son, who was at another neighbour’s home awaiting his mother’s return, saw his mother’s body and belongings scattered along the highway. “When everyone came out to see, he left the neighbour’s house, went and stood inside their gate. When I come back from the road, he ask me ‘Uncle Abu, who is that? What going on there?’” Danglade said he could not bear to tell the child, but the boy already knew.
“I tell him, I can’t tell you that now son, but he say ‘Don’t worry, I know is mommy get bounce down, look she bag in the road,’” he said. “Only when I said yes, then he hug me up and start to cry.” The little boy pleaded with Danglade not to tell his older brother, who according to relatives is disabled, as he was afraid of how his brother would react. Speaking with the Guardian via phone yesterday, Rambharose’s sister Sarah Harrilal Singh said the family is considering requesting counselling for the child.
“Right now we just trying to talk to him and help as best as we could.” Singh said she will keep both boys until further notice, as their father died about two years ago. She described her sister as a jolly, friendly person who could always keep a crowd entertained.