Jensen La Vende

Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic's help in iden­ti­fy­ing a man whom they be­lieved was knocked down in Curepe yes­ter­day morn­ing and left at the side of the road to die.Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the man who is be­lieved to be in his mid 50s was found in a ditch off the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way, near Kay Don­na Dri­ve-in, wear­ing on­ly a pair of blue jeans.The man is slim built and of mixed de­scent. Po­lice said the man's body was found around 4.30 am yes­ter­day at the side the east-bound lanes of the high­way, near Val­sayn.

In an un­re­lat­ed ac­ci­dent, four peo­ple es­caped with mi­nor in­juries af­ter a car slammed in­to the back of an­oth­er and flipped over near Queen's Roy­al Col­lege (QRC), Port-of-Spain.Eye­wit­ness­es said a green Almera was head­ing north around the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, near the school, when the dri­ver pulled away from a maxi that stopped abrupt­ly to avoid a col­li­sion. An­oth­er car, a blue Toy­ota, slammed in­to the back of the car and flipped over.

All three oc­cu­pants of the over­turned car re­ceived mi­nor in­juries. The oc­cu­pants of the car in­clud­ed two Holy Name Con­vent pupils and their moth­er, while the oth­er car had a fe­male oc­cu­pant. The ac­ci­dent oc­curred just be­fore 7 am eye­wit­ness­es said. The ac­ci­dent caused a ma­jor traf­fic pile up around the Sa­van­nah.And in yet an­oth­er in­ci­dent, a man who had mo­ments be­fore dropped off his daugh­ter at the Holy Name Con­vent, Port-of-Spain, suc­cumbed to a heart at­tack and crashed in­to a pil­lar at the main gate.Po­lice cor­doned off the scene which added to the morn­ing rush-hour traf­fic.