Before being involved in an accident that took her life yesterday, Candian Boisson’s kindergarten class was told she was not going to see them next week. Someone then jokingly asked if she was going to die.
Boisson, 29, of Upper Paramin Hill, Maraval, later left Giselle’s Pre-School and Daycare, where she has been a teacher for the past nine years, to pick up her two children in Petit Valley around 11.30 am.
By 1.30 pm she was dead.
Police said the jeep she was travelling in veered off the Morne Coco Road leading into Petit Valley and went down a precipice. The driver, Troy Letren, and another passenger, Dillon Fournillier, 25, Boisson’s younger brother, survived, but are listed in serious condition at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.
Speaking with reporters at the school, Boisson’s aunt and principal, Giselle Boisonelle, said her niece might have survived the accident if help had arrived sooner.
Boisonelle added that one of her niece’s arms was almost severed and she sustained a head wound which may have caused her to bleed to death in the overturned jeep.
A fellow teacher, Sharon Romano, said Boisson was a “wonderful person” who was “very beautiful and was great at arts and craft.”
Romano said Boisson had a good day with her class of three-year-olds yesterday, teaching them to sing for an upcoming graduation.
Romano added that Boisson’s children were usually picked up by their father and that yesterday’s accident was just “sad, sad, sad.”