Two sisters die in crash

Their daughters Tia,18, a student of the UWI, School of Continuing Studies and Timoi Thomas, 14, a South East Gov’t Secondary school student were on their way to a birthday party at RubyTuesdays, Grand Bazaar, when tragedy struck. A third young woman Khadija Jack, 18, an A-level student who was also a passenger in the car died in the accident.

One sister suffered severe head injuries when she was thrown from the vehicle.

Yesterday the grief stricken mother of the two girls Joanne Thomas was unable to speak about the deaths, when Newsday visited their William Street, D’abadie home. However, father Christopher Boodoo, with tears, streaming down his face, said that his children seldom went to parties, but on this occasion, he allowed them to go. He described them as wonderful children. He said he had a premonition that something bad was going to happen but never thought his daughters would have been killed. Boodoo said he was in the process of building the girls separate rooms and had so many plans for them.

He said that late Saturday, he received a telephone call informing him that his daughters were in an accident, but refused to believe it.

“My girls were very nice, obedient children,” he said, adding, “ I believe that God took them away for a purpose and to protect them from the evil elements in the world.”

Tia, he said wanted to be a pediatrician and Timoi, a vet.

Other relatives of the two girls described them as being kind to everyone who knew them and were determined to succeed in whatever careers they chose.

According to reports, at about 4.45 pm on Saturday the driver of a green Toyota car was travelling in the west bound lane of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway when he attempted to overtake two other vehicles.

He lost control of the car, hit the median, flipped and flew several feet into the air, landing on another vehicle in the east bound lane, before striking the vehicle in which the girls were travelling.

The driver of the Toyota car was warded in critical condition at the Eric Williams medical Sciences Complex. Yesterday, Deborah Dinzey, mother of one of the accident victims who remains in critical condition at hospital went to the homes of the girls who were killed to tell the families how sorry she was. She said her son had been driving for two years and never had an accident before The injured were identified yesterday as Sheldon Dinzey of Santa Cruz, Jason Gittens of D’abadie,Geeta Daniel, 32, of Abdullah Street, Caroni, Alicia Cumberbatch of Arima, Trishan Maraj and Laura Boodoo. The mangled wrecks of the vehicles were towed to the Arouca Police Station.

This accident occurred less than two hours after two brothers of Bryan’s Gate, Phillipine, died when their car hit a bridge and ended up in the Cipero River, San Fernando. An autopsy is to be done on the bodies today.

Up to press time, 194 persons were killed in road fatalities for the year.