One dead after car plunges into Cunupia River - Trinidad Tribune – Latest Trinidad And Tobago News

One man is dead and two oth-ers are crit-i-cal fol-low-ing a road traf-fic ac-ci-dent in Cunu-pia short-ly af-ter 6 a.m. to-day.

Po-lice said the ac-ci-dent oc-curred short-ly af-ter the dri-ver of a red Nis-san Note, reg-is-tra-tion PEL 8295, left a gas sta-tion along the South-ern Main Road, Cunu-pia, af-ter re-fu-elling.

The ve-hi-cle was trav-el-ling north along the South-ern Main Road when, a short dis-tance from the gas sta-tion, the dri-ver lost con-trol.

The car crashed in-to a met-al bar-ri-er on the west-ern side of the road-way be-fore plung-ing in-to the Cunu-pia Riv-er, ap-prox-i-mate-ly 15 feet be-low the lev-el of the road.

The dri-ver, whose iden-ti-ty had not been es-tab-lished, was among three oc-cu-pants of the ve-hi-cle.

The oth-er oc-cu-pants were a man and a woman. All three were tak-en to the Er-ic Williams Med-ical Sci-ences Com-plex for med-ical treat-ment.

The dri-ver lat-er suc-cumbed to his in-juries at the hos-pi-tal. The oth-er two oc-cu-pants re-main ward-ed in crit-i-cal con-di-tion.

Po-lice were con-tin-u-ing their in-ves-ti-ga-tions in-to the cir-cum-stances sur-round-ing the ac-ci-dent and were al-so work-ing to es-tab-lish the iden-ti-ty of the de-ceased.

The car was a rental ve-hi-cle from a com-pa-ny in Ari-ma.