Trinidad: Elderly couple dies in car crash near home

HAPPIER TIMES: Elderly couple Deokaran Panilal 62, and his wife Rookmin 55, who died in a fatal accident along the Guaracara/Tabaquite Road on Sunday morning after visiting relatives.

(Trinidad Express) A man and his wife were killed in a crash near Princes Town early on Sunday.

Dead are Deokaran Panilal, 62, and his wife Rookmin Panilal, 55.

The two were in a car travelling along the Guaracara/Tabaquite Road when Deokaran lost control of the car.

Clyde Balram, son-in-law of accident victims Deokaran Panilal 62, and his wife Rookmin 55, speak to the Express from his Princes Town home on Sunday. The elderly couple died in a fatal accident along the Guaracara/Tabaquite Road early Sunday morning after visiting relatives.

The vehicle struck a light pole.

The couple was killed on impact.

It happened at around 1:40 a.m.

The couple lived at Garth Road, Princes Town.