Teen killed in crash

According to his grandmother, Dularie Goolcharan, 69, she promised that food would have been ready when Pyke and his girlfriend arrived. He never made it back alive.

“The girlfriend kept calling his phone when he did not arrive at a certain time. Eventually, a police officer answered and told her about the accident.

Everything would have been prepared when he returned,” the elderly woman said. Pyke, an employee with Roopnarine Hardware Ltd, lived with his grandmother at Dularie Street in Felicity.

Police said that at 7.30 am, Pyke was driving on the southbound lane of the highway, when the car swerved and crashed into some metal railings near the Forres park flyover in Claxton Bay. On impact, Pyke was thrown out of his Honda Civic car and landed on the roadway before the car flipped several times. He was the lone occupant.

Pyke’s grandmother told Newsday he left home at 6.45 am and she subsequently went to worship at a nearby temple.

A relative telephoned the grandmother of seven, shortly after she arrived to inform her that Nicholas was involved in an accident. Goolcharan immediately left the temple and on arrival at the San Fernando General Hospital, learnt that he had died.

“I mind that boy from a baby.

Since this thing happened, I cannot eat anything. Everyone loved Nicholas. Only two months now he bought the car and now it write-off. This is really terrible,” Goolcharan said.

Investigations are continuing.