Young Lawyer killed

A YOUNG lawyer lost his life in a vehicular accident which took place on the Uriah Butler Highway, Chaguanas, yesterday.

Nicholas Rampersad, 24, of Exchange Lot, Couva was on his way home from his Port-of-Spain office at around 12.20 am when the accident occurred. Sunday Newsday was told Rampersad had been practising law for the past two years.

According to a police report, Rampersad was driving his silver Nissan Almera along the south bound lane of the highway, in the vicinity of the Divali Nagar site, when he lost control of the car. Investigators said the vehicle flipped over three times before it landed on the north bound lane of the highway. Rampersad, the lone occupant of the vehicle, died on the spot.

The District Medical Officer ordered the body’s removal to the Port-of-Spain mortuary. An autopsy is expected to be performed tomorrow. Police officers from the Chaguanas Police Station are investigating.

In another incident on the same highway, a few hours later, at around 2.50 am, Highway Patrol Officers saw the body of a woman lying on the side of the roadway.

The woman, who was of East Indian descent, was believed to be the victim of a hit-and-run accident.

The body was viewed by a DMO and was removed to the Forensic Science Centre.

So far this year 88 persons have been killed in road accidents.