Kadeem "Run­ning Star" Chance had a goal of build­ing his ca­reer as a Mer­chant sea­man work­ing on con­tain­er ships or oil tankers. How­ev­er, his chance of be­com­ing one was cut short when he was killed in a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent in Chase Vil­lage on Thurs­day.

Chance, 23, from Calder Hall, To­ba­go was dri­ving a Kia Forte when he crashed in­to a wall along the Old South­ern Main Road. He died on im­pact, po­lice said.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred at about 1.30 am.

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia, a close friend who wished not to be named de­scribed Chance as an "am­bi­tious and in­tel­li­gent young man."

"I do not know where he was go­ing or what caused the crash but all who knows him in­clud­ing my­self is dev­as­tat­ed be­yond words," Chance's friend said.

"He was fo­cused and knew what he want­ed in life and was go­ing hell hard for it," she added.

Chance came to Trinidad a few years ago where he en­rolled in the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T to pur­sue Ma­rine Nav­i­ga­tion stud­ies.

He cur­rent­ly was em­ployed with a ship­ping com­pa­ny in Ch­aguara­mas as an able-bod­ied sea­man.

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Sto­ry by RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT