Three killed in road accidents

THREE persons, one in Tobago and two in Tunapuna, were killed in two separate road accidents on Tuesday night — six hours apart. In Tunapuna National fisheries employee Angela Durga and drag racer Gregory Fox were killed, while in Tobago, cyclist Chemeika Kerr was struck dead by a truck. According to reports, Durga, 49, was in a car being driven by Richard Archibald heading west along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway in St Augustine around 11.30 pm, when Gregory Fox, 30, of Mausica Road, lost control of his Bluebird car on the eastbound lane. The car crossed the median and crashed into a Toyota Corolla, killing Durga, a mother of two, on the spot. Fox was rushed to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex where he later died of his injuries.

Fire Services rushed to the scene of the accident to cut the three persons from the wreckage with the jaws of life. Archibald is warded at the EWMSC in a critical condition. When Newsday visited Durga’s family home at Gangadeen Trace, Pasea Village, St Augustine, relatives described the mother as a wonderful church-going woman who will be missed. “She was a family-oriented woman and very involved in the church. She was simply coming home after a long day’s work when she was killed,” said a relative The family is calling for a thorough investigation into the accident. Kerr, a security guard, was knocked off his bike at Bloody Bay, Tobago, around 6.30 pm The three deaths brought to total killed in road accidents to 52 for 2005. A total of 67 were killed in accidents during the same period last year.