Roland Roopnarine, the Barrackpore man who was driving along M2 Ring Road on Sunday when he lost control of his car and crashed into a van, does not know his brother died in the crash.
Roland’s brother, Hansraj Roopnarine, 43, died on the spot when Roland’s car crashed into a pickup van.
The T&T Guardian spoke to the men’s younger brother, Randy Roopnarine yesterday.
Randy said the autopsy on Hansraj’s body showed he died from multiple internal injuries.
“Hansraj had multiple injuries and internal damages,” Randy said. “But Roland doesn’t know he died yet, we are trying not to distress him by letting him find out yet.”
“He is in and out of consciousness all the time.”
He said although Roland is now stable at hospital, doctors had to remove his spleen which was ruptured in the accident and work on repairing his left lung which was punctured.
Randy said Hansraj’s funeral service will be done on either Thursday or Friday.
But Randy is now calling on the Ministry of Works to do something about the condition of the stretch of road where Hansraj lost his life.
“With them, it was not drinking and driving and it was not speeding,” he said. “Something is wrong with that stretch of road. I believe if they dredge up the road the way they did on the Mosquito Creek, we would see a reduction in road deaths there.”