(Trinidad Express) The tight-knit community of Fishing Pond, Sangre Grande was thrown into mourning yesterday when three men who lived mere metres away from each other were killed instantly when their car slammed into a lamp post along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway, Wallerfield.
Police said that the accident occurred at 5.45 a.m.
Mazurus Ali, aged 43, the driver of the car was killed.
The others killed were Rodney Singh, 34 and Lychan Ragoobar aged 52.
Their funerals have been tentatively scheduled for Thursday.
One man, Nicholas Ramdass aged 19 is currently in critical but stable condition at the Arima District Hospital.
All four men lived at Genda Road, Fishing Pond.
Police said that around 5.45 a.m. Mazurus Ali was heading west along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway in his Toyota Corona with the three other men but when they got to the vicinity of Jacob Hill, Wallerfield he lost control of the car, collided with two other cars that were also heading west, then began careening out of control following which he then slammed into a lamp post.
Ali, Singh and Ragoobar were killed on the spot.
Several officers from the Arima and Valencia Police Stations led by ASP Worrel visited the scene but they could not determine why Ali lost control of the car. The area’s District Medical Officer, Dr Gopaul also visited the scene and ordered the removal of the bodies to the Port of Spain mortuary.
The Express later visited the families of the three men killed yesterday.
At the time they all appeared to be in shock as if the news of the men’s deaths had not yet sunk in.
Hassan Ali, the brother of Mazurus Ali said, “My brother was a real nice fella. He helped a lot of people and he worked in Port of Spain and he had a real nice garden. In fact he planned to plant a crop of corn over the coming weekend but now…I don’t know. I cannot even deal with this right now. Its a few of my good friends who have gone because we all used to lime together. It is really hard.”
The family of Lynchan Ragoobar were next to be visited. A cousin of his who did not want his name mentioned described Ragoobar as a very nice person to his neighbours.
“Everyone knew him as a PH driver in the area before he started working in the Ministry of Housing,” he said.
He added that Ragoobar was last seen alive in the back seat of the Toyota Corona early yesterday morning by his sister and, “half an hour after she saw him she got a call that he had been killed and I really don’t know how the community will deal with this because they all lived less than a few hundred feet away from each other,” said the man.
The family of Rodney Singh was also trying to cope with the news.
Singh’s sister, Cindy Singh said, “Rodney was the oldest of three of us and he was treated like a king.”
“As he was the only son of my parents we really spoiled him. He loved to laugh and he laughed loudly. He was a very loving person. He enjoyed hunting and fishing and making nets. He was a very loving person and he had a lot of friends and we will always have him in our hearts.”
Singh worked at the Kaleidoscope Paint factory in El Socorro.
