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The mother of a 33-year-old woman who died two days after she was run over twice by a car driven by an intoxicated driver in Siparia wants the driver to be charged with killing her daughter.Early yesterday morning, Anezia Lewis, of Santa Flora, succumbed to her injuries at the San Fernando General Hospital.Footage of the horrific accident went viral yesterday, triggering a storm of outrage on social media.Shortly before 10 pm on Monday, CCTV footage shows Lewis exiting the front passenger seat of a car in the carpark of Secret Lounge Bar, at SS Erin Road, Quarry Village.She walked to another car and was speaking to a friend in the driver’s seat. The driver’s door was open.The footage shows a blue Nissan B-15 vehicle quickly reversing and slamming into Lewis, who was dragged to the road.The vehicle stopped briefly and drove forward, running over Lewis again as she tried to get up, pinning her under the car.A man was almost struck as he ran to her assistance and had to scamper out of the way.Eventually, a group of men lifted the car off of her. The driver, from Siparia, failed a breathalyser test with a reading of 65 microgrammes. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.In a telephone interview yesterday, Lewis’s mother, Annamarie Lewis, said her daughter underwent six hours of surgery, was on life support, semi-conscious, but barely speaking.