One woman is dead and three oth­ers in­jured fol­low­ing what has been de­scribed as a freak ac­ci­dent in­volv­ing a ce­ment truck and a car in To­ba­go.

The ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent oc­curred short­ly af­ter 10am on the Wind­ward Road, Hope in the vicin­i­ty of the Bran­tal's Restau­rant and Bar.

Dead is Clau­dia Hunte 68, of Trinidad.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, Neilon Al­fred 24, the dri­ver of the ce­ment truck, owned by Warn­er's Con­struc­tion Com­pa­ny Ltd was head­ing east along the road­way when the ve­hi­cle picked up a skid, over­turned, land­ing on its side pin­ning a sil­ver Nis­san Wingroad.

We are told the sil­ver Wingroad, dri­ven by Fil­ton Mur­ray of Pem­broke was head­ing in the op­po­site di­rec­tion, when the ce­ment truck land­ed on it, pin­ning him and two oth­er oc­cu­pants in­side.

We are told Hunte was the front seat pas­sen­ger of the car, while Beat­rice Dann- Nan­cis 63 of Good­wood was seat­ed in the back.

Di­vi­sion­al Fire Of­fi­cer David Thomas told Guardian Me­dia that fire of­fi­cers ex­pe­ri­enced chal­lenges in ex­tri­cat­ing the vic­tims

"Ef­forts ini­tial­ly to ex­tri­cate the per­sons, we ran in­to dif­fi­cul­ties, in that we had no equip­ment to man­age the weight of the ce­ment truck. We had to sub­se­quent­ly so­lic­it sup­port from oth­er en­ti­ties; even­tu­al­ly we were able to get two Hiab trucks and an ex­ca­va­tor com­ing to the scene which as­sist­ed in sta­bil­is­ing the ce­ment truck and eas­ing it off the wreck­age, so that ex­ca­va­tion works could have com­menced" Thomas said.

Hunte who was be­ing trans­port­ed to the air­port to re­turn home, at the time of the ac­ci­dent, was the first to be re­moved from the wreck­age, suf­fer­ing from se­vere in­juries to her head, neck and up­per tho­racic. She was trans­port­ed to hos­pi­tal via an EHS am­bu­lance, but was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.

Nan­cis com­plained of pains to her neck and shoul­ders. Mur­ray, the last to be re­moved, suf­fered se­vere frac­ture to his legs.

They were rushed to hos­pi­tal, where they are said to be in a sat­is­fac­to­ry con­di­tion.

Mean­while, Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that Al­fred the dri­ver of the truck, was thrown from the ve­hi­cle, slam­ming in­to a parked truck and falling on­to the road­way. He re­cieved in­juries to his head, neck, face, chest and up­per arms. He was rushed to Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he is ward­ed in se­ri­ous con­di­tion.

The ac­ci­dent caused a ma­jor traf­fic pile­up for ap­prox­i­mate­ly five hours, halt­ing traf­fic both ways.

Fire of­fi­cers al­so spent sev­er­al hours sham­poo­ing the road sur­face, which was slicked by oil and gas, to pre­vent fur­ther ac­ci­dents.