Sixteen-year-old Kimberly Natasha Jones, a student of the Fort Wellington Secondary School, and of Lot 63 No. 22 Bel Air West Coast Berbice (WCB), was killed on Tuesday evening in a suspected hit-and-run accident along the Number 22 Village Public Road, WCB.
Kimberly recently completed her Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations and was returning home from Rosignol when the incident occurred around 21:00hrs.
One relative explained that he went to the airport, and while returning home, he noticed a large crowd on the road. He stopped to find out what had happened and it was then he was informed that it was Kimberly who had been struck down.
He said she was picked up and rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
According to the family, the driver of the vehicle, after hitting the teen, fled the scene but was later arrested.
Kimberly resided at Number 22 Village with her sister and brother-in-law, since her mother died a few years ago.
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