Valdeen Shears-Neptune
Two people lost their lives in a mid-evening vehicular accident yesterday, after the car they were travelling in skidded off the road and landed on its hood in a river in the Santa Flora fields.
Police reports are that Frank Moses and his twin brother Fankie, along with passenger Shaneice Bailey, were travelling along the Santa Flora Road to Point Fortin when the accident occurred.
According to police at the Point Fortin station, after the vehicle overturned in the river, Frankie, 52, was able to get out, but his brother and Bailey, 32, died at the scene.
Frankie, police said, worked at the Point Fortin Borough Corporation, while Bailey was an employee at a restaurant in Point Fortin. Officers said they could not tell if the two had drowned or succumbed to injuries from the crash.
In another unrelated vehicular accident, a dump truck blew its front left tyre and ran off the along the Solomon Hochoy Highway, just before the Chase Village Flyover in Chaguanas.
Police said just after 10.30 the driver lost control of the truck when the tyre blew out and ran off the highway. The vehicle, loaded with goods, cleared away several trees and stopped in a nearby ditch.
According to police at both the Freeport and Chaguanas Police Stations, no injuries were reported in that accident.