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A 19-year-old Aranguez man is this country’s latest road fatality after he died while driving on the Beetham Highway on Tuesday night.
Police said Kavish Persad was driving a white Hyundai Ionic at 10 pm when he tried to overtake a car but crashed into it. His car then struck the Beetham water main, went airborne and landed in the nearby Laventille River.
Onlookers gathered as residents rushed to help, pulling Persad from the submerged car, but he was unresponsive. Emergency personnel remained on the scene conducting investigations.
The second vehicle crashed into a grassy slope at the side of the highway.
It was the third road fatality for the day.
Earlier, security guard Roxanne Phillip, 39, and bus driver Munsaf Khan, 48, died when the bus they were in collided with another vehicle on the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway, Freeport.
Hours before that, at 4.40 am, 29-year-old Jamie Morton died when he tried to overtake a green band maxi on the southbound lane of the Southern Main Road but collided head-on with another maxi travelling in the opposite direction. He died at the scene.
According to TTPS data, there have been 76 road fatalities so far this year compared to 74 for the same period last year.
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