(Trinidad Express) The relatives of three of yesterday’s accident victims were in a state of shock as the reality of the tragedy sunk in.
At Belmont, where Ryan “Fly” Ramtahal, 25, the driver lived, friends and relatives gathered where they recalled the last time they saw him alive.
Ramtahal, Jeremy Soyer, 24, Jovaughn Spencer, 22, and an unidentified woman, who was dressed in a multi-coloured blouse and black skirt, were killed instantly when the car they were travelling in crossed the median, along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway, in Trincity and collided with a Toyota Prado SUV carrying Acting Chief Justice Wendell Kangaloo and two police officers.
Ramtahal lived with parents and grand-parents at Industry Lane, Belmont and worked at American Stores. Soyer lived in St James. He was the father of a four-year-old Jardel Spencer.
Spencer was the father of three-year-old Jaheem Spencer and lived at Braithwaite Lane, Belmont. He was employed as a labourer at the Port of Spain City Corporation.
“He was the most handsome boy in the world,” said Adina Greene, the grandmother of Spencer.
One of his ambitions was to buy his own car, said Spencer’s aunt who did not want to be named.
“He was quiet, quiet but he loved going out with his friends,” said Greene. She said she raised him from a child.
Soyer’s family who went to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, in Mt Hope yesterday around midday searching for his body later found out that the body was at a funeral home in Arima.
Simone Lewis, Soyer’s girlfriend said, “Right now I am feeling like I am in a dream.”
She said Soyers father was scheduled to visit the family in December and it would have been the first time in ten years he would have seen his son and the first time he would have met his grandson.
