Fol­low­ing an ear­ly morn­ing bik­ing ac­ci­dent on the Beetham which has left two mem­bers of the Slip­stream Cy­cling Club, Joan­na Banks, 40, a British na­tion­al and Joe Brown, a chef at the pop­u­lar Jaf­fa at the Oval restau­rant, dead and mul­ti­ple oth­ers in­jured, Ar­rive Alive's pres­i­dent Sharon In­gle­field post­ed on the or­gan­i­sa­tion's Face­book page that T&T is not equipped to deal with fa­tal road traf­fic ac­ci­dents.

In­gle­field said, “Un­for­tu­nate­ly, to our knowl­edge, T&T does not have trained crash in­ves­ti­ga­tors to analyse these types of fa­tal road traf­fic ac­ci­dents (FR­TAs).

“How­ev­er, we have faith that the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) will fol­low the nec­es­sary pro­ce­dures and con­duct a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion to the best of their abil­i­ty in­clud­ing breathalysing the dri­ver, and ex­am­in­ing all the cam­eras in the vicin­i­ty of this fa­tal col­li­sion.

"These 14 cy­clists set out from the Oval this morn­ing at 6.15 am with TTPS es­cort, for their week­end ride. One of the cy­clists said he heard a screech­ing noise be­fore the car hit the group, and tossed many of them in­to the near­by ditch.

"Our con­do­lences go out to the fam­i­lies of the loved ones lost on the Beetham this morn­ing! Our con­do­lences to the cy­cling fra­ter­ni­ty! We are dev­as­tat­ed by to­day's events. Our thoughts and prayers are with you."

She said the na­tion's roads con­tin­ue to be a dan­ger­ous en­vi­ron­ment and we all have a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, more par­tic­u­lar­ly, dri­vers to re­spect vul­ner­a­ble road users like cy­clists and pedes­tri­ans.

In­gle­field said Joe Brown, from Jaf­fa, had spon­sored Ar­rive Alive's World Day of Re­mem­brance for Road Traf­fic Vic­tims over the years and it was trag­ic he should lose his life on our roads.