East Bank Berbice.The traffic police on the team went in a yard

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…suspect surrendersAn Islington woman was involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident around 20:45 hrs on Saturday. Dead is Sastia ‘Sassy’ Phillips, 28, of Fifth Street, Islington, East Bank Berbice. Originally, she lived at Timmers Dam, Angoy’s Avenue.She and her reputed husband, Peter Greenidge, were walking along Main and Asylum Streets, New Amsterdam (in the vicinity of the New Amsterdam Hospital Doctors’ Quarters) with their children two-year-old Kadia Phillips and 11-year- old Cynthia.They were heading towards Charles Place in the town.According to Peter, a speeding Toyota Camry, PDD 5925, was heading in the same direction “and came from behind and just hit her down from behind…we were walking in the corner on the left hand side and he was speeding”. The car then sped away.The dead woman’s sister related that the impact was so hard that “her (sister’s) head shattered the windscreen and there were pieces of her clothing on the car. She fell face- down— there were head injuries—she landed on her face and her front teeth were all broken up. There were lacerations on her head, from her forehead to her cheek”.Peter was assisted by a taxi from Triple S Taxi service to take Sastia to the hospital. They managed to put her in the back seat of the taxi in the still face down position. Peter said that she was still breathing. He put the children in the front seat and headed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital. At the hospital no porter was available. A security guard on duty assisted Peter to take the bleeding Sastia to the Accident and Emergency Unit.The woman was pronounced dead on arrival at the New Amsterdam Regional Hospital.Sastia’s older sister, Keisha Phillips, who is a businesswoman, said that she sent her friend to the hospital with a mobile phone for him to ask the doctor on duty or a nurse to speak to her sister and she was denied that privilege. She did not know that the woman had died.The grieving sister, who is the lone sibling left after the death of her brother Leary Phillips five years ago, said that  she sent a second person to the hospital to check on her sister’s condition. That was when she learnt that her sister had died.She immediately offered a $1M reward for the arrest of the driver late Saturday evening. Police began their search on Sunday. The car was spotted in the suspect neighbour’s yard at Lot 41 Housing Scheme in New Amsterdam. Police immediately seized the car and took the neighbours in for questioning.A few hours later, Peter with the help of friends and police launched a hunt for the car and the driver, starting from Mara, East Bank Berbice.The traffic police on the team went in a yard, pulled the tarpaulin and saw the excessive damage to the left side of the car.He then asked Peter to identify the car which he did positively. The driver was nowhere to be found. The car was parked in his aunt’s yard.The suspect, a cane harvester identified as Edson Inniss, surrendered in the company of family members shortly before 18:00 hrs on Sunday. He was arrested at the Central Police Station where he is currently in custody. He is expected to be charged shortly.Keshia Phillips who said that she is from East Coast Demerara, contended that if her sister could have gotten private attention to save her life, she was willing to ask the doctor to send her with an emergency ambulance to Georgetown.