Shane Su­perville

Se­nior Re­porter

shane.su­perville@guardian.co.tt

A 28-year-old mo­tor­cy­clist be­came this coun­try’s lat­est road fa­tal­i­ty when he crashed his bike dur­ing an ac­ci­dent in Curepe on Wednes­day night.

Richard Nang­wah was rid­ing his Kawasa­ki Nin­ja mo­tor­cy­cle along South­ern Main Road at 10.15 pm when he col­lid­ed with a sil­ver Kia Cer­a­to. The im­pact threw Nang­wah from the mo­tor­cy­cle on­to a pave­ment, while the car crashed in­to a near­by light pole and caught fire. The 26-year-old dri­ver es­caped.

Of­fi­cers from the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion and fire­fight­ers from the San Juan Fire Sta­tion went to the scene and ex­tin­guished the blaze.

A dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer de­clared Nang­wah dead at the scene.

Ad­dress­ing whether is­sues with the road­way led to the ac­ci­dent, Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Josi­ah Austin said he would have to ver­i­fy whether that sec­tion of the road fell un­der the purview of his cor­po­ra­tion or the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port (MOWT). Austin added that he knew the MOWT was car­ry­ing out patch­ing on all ma­jor roads.

Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port Ro­han Sinanan said he pre­ferred not to com­ment as he did not have the re­port and was al­so mind­ful of the on­go­ing po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the ac­ci­dent.

Min­is­ter of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Faris Al-Rawi said he want­ed to get all the de­tails on the mat­ter be­fore com­ment­ing.