Couva man killed in crash

A LATE night trip to the movies turned fatal when a 21-year-old man was killed and his three friends seriously injured when a car they were in, crashed into a wall yesterday morning. Simba Mayers of Bel Air Avenue, Carli Bay, Couva, is believed to have suffered a broken neck and died on the spot. His friends, Steven Smith, 24, Joel Boyce, 22, and Antonio Rajnath, 22, all of Carli Bay, sustained broken bones and head injuries and remain warded in stable condition at the San Fernando General Hospital. According to police reports, around 1 am yesterday Smith was driving his black B12 Sentra car along the Old Southern Main Road, Chaguanas, on his way home from cinema with his three friends. On reaching McBean, Couva, Smith lost control of the vehicle which swerved onto the pavement and slammed into a concrete wall. The Chaguanas Fire Service responded and had to use a hydraulic cutting device known as the “jaws of life” to cut the passengers out of the mangled wreck.

When Newsday visited the home of the deceased yesterday his mother Jean Gordon, 41, was too distraught to speak about the death of her youngest son. Trying to hold back the tears, his step-father, Phillip St Clair, who had taken care of the deceased since he was seven years old, described the dead man as a “very good youth man.” Recalling the last moments he spent with Mayers, St Clair said they played basketball on Monday evening and then Mayers took a bath and said he was going out for a while. Instead, he said his son went to Globe cinema with his friends and was returning home when the accident occurred. St Clair said they would make funeral arrangements following a post-mortem today. Cpl Mohammed of the Couva Police Station is investigating the incident.