An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

an­na-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

Da­ta from Ar­rive Alive in­di­cates that Trinidad and To­ba­go con­tin­ues to record se­ri­ous road traf­fic ac­ci­dents, al­though fa­tal­i­ties so far this year are sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­er com­pared to the same pe­ri­od in 2025.

Pro­vid­ing sta­tis­tics up to April 7, 2026, the ad­vo­ca­cy group re­port­ed a to­tal of 26 ac­ci­dents re­sult­ing in 27 fa­tal­i­ties be­tween Jan­u­ary 2025 and April 7, 2025. In con­trast, for the com­pa­ra­ble pe­ri­od in 2026, there were 18 ac­ci­dents and 18 fa­tal­i­ties.

The fig­ures re­flect a 31 per cent de­crease in road traf­fic ac­ci­dents and a 33 per cent re­duc­tion in fa­tal­i­ties year-on-year.

For April 2025, three fa­tal ac­ci­dents were record­ed, com­pared to one fa­tal­i­ty so far in April 2026—rep­re­sent­ing a 67 per cent de­crease.

In Jan­u­ary 2025, there were nine fa­tal ac­ci­dents, while Jan­u­ary 2026 record­ed five, a 44 per cent de­cline in both ac­ci­dents and fa­tal­i­ties.

By lo­ca­tion, main roads ac­count­ed for the high­est num­ber of fa­tal­i­ties in the com­par­a­tive pe­ri­ods. In 2025, there were 17 fa­tal ac­ci­dents re­sult­ing in 18 deaths on main roads. In 2026, a com­bined to­tal of nine fa­tal­i­ties were record­ed across main roads and high­ways for the same pe­ri­od.

No­tably, fa­tal ac­ci­dents along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route fell to ze­ro in 2026, down from one record­ed in 2025.

Break­downs by road user cat­e­go­ry showed mixed trends. Fa­tal­i­ties among pas­sen­gers and load­ers de­clined to ze­ro, rep­re­sent­ing a 100 per cent de­crease in both cat­e­gories. How­ev­er, fa­tal­i­ties among dri­vers in­creased from three in 2025 to six in 2026. Ped­al cy­clist fa­tal­i­ties al­so rose from ze­ro to one over the same pe­ri­od.