Four Guyanese die in T&T highway crash

TIMES INT'L

Four Guyanese were among five people killed in a horrific accident in Trinidad and Tobago on Friday night, December 24th.

As thousands around the country celebrated Christmas on Saturday, Ingrid Watterton, a Laventille woman, was coming to terms with the news that her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter had been killed in the vehicular accident.

With tears streaming down her face, seated in her daughter’s apartment at Burke Terrace, El Socorro Extension, Watterton said, “I was just hoping it was a dream.”

A three-car smash-up along the east-bound lane of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway on Christmas Eve claimed the lives of Guyanese nationals Redison Roberts, 38; his wife Indrani Roberts, 28; Wrensford Lewis, 34; his wife, Trinidadian Melissa Watterton-Lewis, 24; and their daughter, two-year-old Renesha.

Causing a major pileup, as traffic had to be diverted along the Piarco Old Road, the tragedy occurred at about 7 pm as the five were returning from completing last-minute Christmas shopping in Arima.

While officers are still uncertain how the accident occurred, Watterton said they believe Roberts was “given a bad drive and lost control of the car as he pulled away.” Police said a vehicle driven by Nyree De Couteau, 41, a customer service representative at TSTT, and her daughter La Toya, 25, was heading east to their home at Red Hill in D’Abadie, while a second car, driven by Barry Guy, 46, of Morvant, a driver with TSTT, was struck by Roberts’s B11 Sunny car, which crossed the median and collided with them.

While the five occupants of Roberts’s vehicle were killed instantly, La Toya had to be hospitalised after sustaining minor injuries. (Newsday)

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