Driver, passenger drown

Autopsies at the Forensic Science Centre yesterday confirmed Moses and Bailey had drowned. According to a police report, at about 10 am on Sunday, Frank was driving a gold-coloured Nissan B13 car along Old Production Road near Point Fortin when the vehicle skidded off the wet roadway and crashed into a nearby river.

Frankie was seated in the back of the car while Bailey was the front seat passenger and his brother was the driver. Speaking yesterday at his Pt Ligoure, Pt Fortin home, an emotional Moses said he still cannot believe his twin was gone forever.

“I feel like this is a dream. I can’t believe Frank is gone forever,” Moses cried. He recalled that seconds before the accident, he heard Bailey scream, “Watch out!” “With those words I jumped up, but in no time the car was filled with water and everything was pitch black. I realised I was underwater and felt around the car which was upside down to try and find the door handle. The water was already reaching my neck and I had to keep raising my head up and wiping my face to be able to breath,” Moses said.

He related that it was a struggle before he was able to open the door. “I kept praying and asking God to spare my life so I could help my brother and his friend,” Moses said. As fate would have it, Frankie survived but his brother and Bailey did not. “When I was able to free myself from the vehicle I rushed to my brother’s assistance. I could feel his hand in the water, I felt for a pulse but I got nothing...I knew he was gone.

Moses said that nearly 42 years ago, his sister Leona Moses drowned near a river in Egypt Village, Pt Fortin. “Today (Monday) if my sister was alive she would have been 59 years old. It is such a strange coincidence that my brother has passed away in a similar manner. This is really hard for me to know that he would no longer be here,” the tearful brother said.

At the time of the incident, the brothers were driving to drop Bailey off at her home. When Newsday visited Bailey’s home at Newlands Village, Pt Fortin, her sister Ebony Bailey said she would have celebrated her 28th birthday next month. “My sister was the only one I could count on. She was always there for me. Jeneice was more than a sister...she was a best friend.

I still can’t believe she is gone,” the weeping woman cried. Bailey was a mother of two.