Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

Two days af­ter re­turn­ing from a trip to Cana­da, ac­coun­tant Kyle Sook­lals­ingh met a hor­rif­ic death when his BMW con­vert­ible crashed off the Solomon Ho­choy High­way ear­ly yes­ter­day.Sook­lals­ingh's con­vert­ible, reg­is­tered PCH 41, was giv­en to him five years ago as a birth­day present from his fa­ther David, who owns Da­vane Im­port/Ex­port En­ter­pris­es.Al­so in­jured in the crash was Sook­lals­ingh's gym in­struc­tor Bran­don Williams, 36, of Caratal Road, Gas­par­il­lo.

Williams, who suf­fered mas­sive head and in­ter­nal in­juries, re­mained hooked up to life sup­port at the In­ten­sive Care Unit of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal up to late yes­ter­day.Po­lice said Sook­lals­ingh, 26, of Fa­hey Av­enue, Gopaul Lands, Mara­bel­la, died on the spot.A wit­ness, who re­quest­ed anonymi­ty, said around 3.10 am, Sook­lals­ingh and Williams were head­ing on the south-bound lane of the high­way when up­on pass­ing the Corinth over­pass, Sook­lals­ingh lost con­trol of the car.

The car crashed through the high­way rail­ings, flew up in­to the air, smashed in­to a tree and kept spin­ning in the air, be­fore land­ing in a crum­pled heap in­side a ditch."That car was trav­el­ling more than 200 miles an hour when it passed me at Freeport. Min­utes lat­er it crashed. I don't know if the dri­ver fell asleep but he was re­al­ly do­ing some num­bers," the wit­ness said.

Po­lice spent more than an hour comb­ing through the bush­es in search of oth­er pas­sen­gers. No one else was found. Sook­lals­ingh's body was re­moved to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, for an au­top­sy. Two wreck­ers had to be used to pull the man­gled ve­hi­cle from the ditch.At the fam­i­ly's home, Sook­lals­ingh's moth­er, Di­ane Ho­sein, was in a state of shock. She said she spoke to her son hours be­fore the crash and he told her he was go­ing to Williams' home to drop off some items.

"I am not sure where he was go­ing af­ter­wards. He did not come home and when my oth­er son, Kyeil, got up to go to work, he no­ticed Kyle's car was not in the garage.He called Kyle's cell­phone and some­one an­swered say­ing he had an ac­ci­dent and was in the hos­pi­tal," Ho­sein said.She said when David ar­rived on the ac­ci­dent scene, po­lice had al­ready moved Sook­lals­ingh's body from the wreck­age.

"Every­thing is so sud­den. I feel numb as if none of this is re­al­ly true. I can­not be­lieve that God will take away some­one who was so kind and lov­ing to us," Ho­sein said.She added Sook­lals­ingh was al­ways will­ing to help his friends and had trav­elled to Cana­da to be with his friend who had un­der­gone a med­ical op­er­a­tion."He loved to lime and have a good time. He came back from Toron­to on Sat­ur­day. He stud­ied ac­coun­tan­cy in Lon­don and he had plans to be­com­ing an ac­tu­ary," Ho­sein said.

She ex­plained that Sook­lals­ingh was the "ba­by" in the fam­i­ly. On his 21st birth­day, David gave him the BMW as a present. Ho­sein said Sook­lals­ingh loved his sib­lings and worked in his fa­ther's busi­ness.Mean­while, Williams' rel­a­tives stayed at the hos­pi­tal pray­ing for his life. Williams' friend, Hugh Find­ley, said too many peo­ple were tak­ing chances on the road.Po­lice of­fi­cers of Ste Madeleine are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.