A 50-year-old woman was killed in a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent in Ma­yaro over the week­end. She has been iden­ti­fied as Ormil­la Ra­jku­mar of Guayagua­yare, Ma­yaro. According to reports, Po­lice re­spond­ed to an ac­ci­dent around 12:30 AM on Sunday (11th September 2022) along Guayagua­yare Road, Grand La­goon Vil­lage.

Upon arriving at the scene, Officers found a man­gled blue Nis­san Fron­tier over­turned on the West­ern side of the road­way. Ra­jku­mar's body was said to be halfway out of the left front win­dow.

The dri­ver of the Frontier, Kevin Cuffie, 36, of Guayagua­yare, was tak­en to the Ma­yaro Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal by Fire Ser­vice Emer­gency Med­ical Tech­ni­cians where he was treat­ed and trans­ferred to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal. Po­lice were unable to in­ter­view him at the time due to his con­di­tion.

Po­lice sus­pect the van struck a wood­en TSTT pole as it was bro­ken in sev­er­al pieces near the van. Ra­jku­mar's body was iden­ti­fied by her old­er sis­ter.

Ma­yaro po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.

​[Source: T&T Guardian]

Five (5) ambulances responded to the scene of a crash on the first day of school this morning (Monday 5th September 2022), where twelve (12) children and a driver were injured. They were taken to the Couva District Health Facility and the San Fernando General Hospital.

According to reports, a private school bus was transporting the children during rainy conditions around 8:00 AM this morning when it overturned along the Southern Main Road in Savonetta, Claxton Bay. The children were said to be pupils mainly of the Esperanza Presbyterian School.

The children and driver suffered mainly cuts, bruises and physical trauma to the chest and back.

Fire Officers of the Savonetta Station and Police Officers of the Couva Police Station responded to the scene.

This is a developing story - refresh this page for updates.

​[Source: Trinidad Express]

UPDATE: Five (5) ambulances responded to the scene of this crash on the first day of school this morning, where twelve (12) children and a driver were reportedly injured. They were taken to the Couva District Health Facility and the San Fernando General Hospital.

A maxi-taxi vehicle which was transporting children to school this morning (Monday 5th September 2022) has reportedly flipped over at a corner near Pranz Gardens, Claxton Bay. Passersby stopped to render assistance before authorities arrived at the scene.

A photo of the accident which has been circulating on social media clearly shows the driver was operating under rainy conditions, which may or may not have played a role in the crash. It is unclear how many children were inside the maxi-taxi at the time of the accident, or how many were injured.

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A car heading into Point Fortin on Friday afternoon (26th August 2022), veered off the roadway at a high rate of speed and crashed into the Thakoordass NP Gas Station in La Brea. The female driver, who lost control of her car, hit an oyster stall before crashing into several vehicles in the gas station. Three (3) persons remain at Hospital where they are being treated for injuries sustained during the accident, which took place shortly before 4:30 PM on Friday afternoon.

The gas station had to be temporarily locked down as Fire Officers cleaned gas which spilled during the collision. A gas pump was also struck and almost uprooted during the accident, which immediately sent persons scampering out of the gas station for safety.

The Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny (NP) said that quick work by the gas sta­tion own­er pre­vent­ed a worse sit­u­a­tion in La Brea on Fri­day.

In a statement, NP said, ”The Trinidad & To­ba­go Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) can con­firm that a mo­torist lost con­trol of a ve­hi­cle which plowed in­to oth­er near­by ve­hi­cles, even­tu­al­ly col­lid­ing with one of the Su­per/Pre­mi­um fu­el dis­pensers at the Ser­vice Sta­tion, caus­ing it to fall on to an­oth­er ve­hi­cle. Thank­ful­ly, there were no re­port­ed in­juries to cus­tomers or Ser­vice Sta­tion per­son­nel at the time this re­lease was be­ing pre­pared.”

NP noted that fol­low­ing es­tab­lished Ser­vice Sta­tion Emer­gency Pro­to­col, the deal­er im­me­di­ate­ly ac­ti­vat­ed the emer­gency shut­down de­vice/switch which shuts down all pow­er and the flow of fu­el to all dis­pensers, in­clu­sive of the dam­aged dis­penser. “As a re­sult of this quick ac­tion, the au­to­mat­ic shut-off valve sys­tem func­tioned as de­signed and there was no gush­ing or spillage of fu­el on to the fore­court. How­ev­er, as a pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure, fire ex­tin­guish­ers were dis­charged by the fore­court at­ten­dants on du­ty and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vices were al­so on hand to sup­port the emer­gency re­sponse,” the statement added.

NP said the area around the af­fect­ed dis­penser was im­me­di­ate­ly cor­doned off and mem­bers of NP’s Main­te­nance De­part­ment were sub­se­quent­ly de­ployed.

NP added that once on-site, the main­te­nance team con­duct­ed the com­plete iso­la­tion of the dam­aged fu­el dis­penser both elec­tri­cal­ly and me­chan­i­cal­ly (fu­el line iso­la­tion), to pre­vent fu­el spilling or pow­er in­ad­ver­tent­ly caus­ing the ac­ti­va­tion of the unit. “Fur­ther­more, the dam­aged dis­penser has been re­moved from the site and the area will re­main cor­doned off as the team works to re­place it in the com­ing days. More­over, the Ser­vice Sta­tion was back up and run­ning at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 11:00 PM last evening, there­by re­duc­ing the in­con­ve­nience caused to La Brea res­i­dents and the wider com­mu­ni­ty,” NP said.

[Source: T&T Guardian]

Four (4) off-duty Police Officers were taken to Hospital this morning (Sunday 28th August 2022) following a road traffic accident in San Fernando. The accident took place following a breakfast party attended by the group of Officers, which was held at the Brian Lara Stadium.

​The injured Officers were identified as Police Constables St. John, Edwards, Colvis, and Li, all from the Port-of-Spain Court and Process Unit. They were in a white panel van, driven by St. John. Two (2) civilians, Tesfa Defour and a friend, identified only as Shane, were in a Nissan Cefiro motorcar driven by Defour. They received minor injuries and were medically examined by paramedics at the scene and allowed to leave.

The crash happened at the intersection of the Brian Lara Stadium Road and Gasparillo Bypass Road at around 10:30 AM.

Reports state that the panel van with the Officers exited the link road and turned right when the Nissan Cefiro, driven by Defour, and heading the same direction, collided with the van. The van flipped, throwing out two (2) of the Officers in the process. It landed partially on the car at the roadside. The driver, PC St. John, was said to be pinned in the front seat. All Officers received serious injuries in the crash, with one suffering injuries to his back and shoulders, including “large cuts.”

​The injured Officers were all taken to the San Fernando General Hospital for medical treatment.

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​[Source: Newsday]

An ac­ci­dent along the Va­len­cia Stretch has claimed the life of a 65-year-old man. The man, identified as Earl David, of Paul Street, San­gre Grande, died at Hos­pi­tal early Sat­ur­day morning (20th August 2022) from injuries he suffered in a two-ve­hi­cle, head-on col­li­sion, on Fri­day night. David died at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal while un­der­go­ing emer­gency surgery around 3:35 AM on Saturday morning. He is said to have suf­fered head and in­ter­nal in­juries in the ac­ci­dent.

David's wife, Michelle Julien-David, 50, who was a front seat passenger, sus­tained a frac­tured left leg and is currently hos­pi­talised.

According to reports, around 10:55 PM on Fri­day, Po­lice Of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to the scene of a road traf­fic ac­ci­dent along the Va­len­cia Stretch in the vicin­i­ty of Swan Quar­ry Road. Up­on ar­rival, the Of­fi­cers ob­served a green Hyundai Ac­cent, with reg­is­tra­tion num­ber PBF 5037, fac­ing South­west, off the South­ern side of the road­way, with dam­age to the en­tire front of the ve­hi­cle. The driver of the ve­hi­cle, Jean-Marc Sylvester, 32, from East­ern Main Road, Va­len­cia, sus­tained in­juries to his mouth.

Meanwhile, the front of David's ve­hi­cle, a sil­ver Toy­ota Corol­la L Tour­ing wag­on, with registration number PBT 9922, was dam­aged. The couple were tak­en to the Hos­pi­tal by EHS Am­bu­lance. Al­so re­spond­ing to the scene of the ac­ci­dent were Ag FSO Baldeo and Of­fi­cers from the San­gre Grande Fire Sta­tion.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion is on­go­ing and is be­ing con­duct­ed by Ag Cpl De­osaran of the Va­len­cia Po­lice Post.

​[Source: T&T Guardian]