Derek Achong

A 21-year-old hair­dress­er was killed in an ear­ly morn­ing car ac­ci­dent on the Beetham high­way yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 4.30 am, Te­niesha Ma­habirs­ingh, of Bon Air Gar­dens, Arou­ca, was dri­ving her sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da along the east­bound lane of the high­way when she crashed af­ter pass­ing the NP ser­vice sta­tion.

The car swerved, then flipped sev­er­al times be­fore land­ing on its hood, po­lice said. Traf­fic on both the east and west­bound lanes slowed to a crawl as cu­ri­ous mo­torists slowed down to catch a glimpse of the wreck­age.

Ma­habirs­ingh, who had a four-year-old son, died at the scene. Two oc­cu­pants of her car, who were not iden­ti­fied by po­lice up to late yes­ter­day, sus­tained se­ri­ous in­juries and were tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment. They re­mained ward­ed in a sta­ble con­di­tion up to late yes­ter­day.

Speak­ing with re­porters at the mor­tu­ary of the hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day, Ma­habirs­ingh's rel­a­tives de­scribed her as kind and fun­ny.

"She was a beau­ti­ful child. She was spe­cial, she al­ways had every­body laugh­ing es­pe­cial­ly with her im­per­son­ations," her emo­tion­al fa­ther said.

"No­body should have to bury their child," he added.

Asked if he knew where his daugh­ter was head­ing, he said he did not know.

"Hon­est­ly I dont know much. I just got the call this morn­ing that Te­niesha was in an ac­ci­dent and I rushed there," he said.

Ma­habirs­ingh's death took the road fa­tal­i­ty toll for the year to 49. The com­par­a­tive fig­ure for the same pe­ri­od last year was 39.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.