Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

A man and a woman are To­ba­go’s first road fa­tal­i­ties of 2024. They were killed in an ac­ci­dent that oc­curred around 12.05 am along the Wind­ward Road, Claude Noel High­way, near the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um.

Po­lice said Ka­reem Thom, a 26-year-old res­i­dent of Big Hole, Good­wood, was dri­ving a white Nis­san Ti­i­da with three pas­sen­gers, Sher­ma Thomas, a fel­low res­i­dent of Big Hole, Sachelle Kennedy, 33, of Ma­ju­ba Trace and two-year-old Ja­co­bi Thomas.

The dri­ver lost con­trol of the ve­hi­cle and col­lid­ed with an iron rail­ing on the south­ern side of the road. The car then crashed in­to a tree down an in­cline.

A DMO pro­nounced Thom dead on the scene at 1.25 am and or­dered his body to be re­moved to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal Mor­tu­ary.

Emer­gency ser­vices swift­ly re­spond­ed to the scene, trans­port­ing the in­jured oc­cu­pants to Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where Thomas passed away af­ter be­ing ex­am­ined by doc­tors.

Up to yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, the sur­vivors re­mained hos­pi­talised in sta­ble but se­ri­ous states.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.