Accident victim identified as Santa Cruz woman

SHANE SU­PERVILLE

Se­nior Re­porter

The woman who was knocked down along the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way in Aranguez on Mon­day morn­ing has now been iden­ti­fied as a 74-year-old San­ta Cruz res­i­dent, po­lice said.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the woman as Ephrem Mary Pereira of Can­taro Vil­lage.

Po­lice re­port­ed that the dri­ver of a brown Toy­ota Hilux was dri­ving along the west­bound lane of the high­way just af­ter 5 am when he no­ticed ve­hi­cles ahead of him swerv­ing as if to avoid some­thing.

The dri­ver re­port­ed­ly col­lid­ed with Pereira be­fore pulling over near Don Miguel Ex­ten­sion to ren­der as­sis­tance.

The in­ci­dent was re­port­ed to po­lice, who ar­rived at the scene with a dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer, who de­clared Pereira dead.

Po­lice said the 66-year-old dri­ver was cau­tioned for in­tend­ed pros­e­cu­tion, and his ve­hi­cle was towed to the Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion.