Kevon Felmine

A teenag­er was killed and five oth­ers in­jured in an ear­ly-morn­ing ac­ci­dent yes­ter­day in which a car plunged down a 25-foot precipice. Po­lice be­lieve the Nis­san Sun­ny B-14 in which 16-year-old Kyle Gar­cia, of Third Com­pa­ny Road, In­di­an Walk, Princes Town, was trav­el­ling may have been over­loaded. Gar­cia, a stu­dent of the Princes Town East Sec­ondary School, died around 6 am at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, af­ter he suf­fered mul­ti­ple head in­juries. His neigh­bours, Na­dia Ma­habir, 26; Greg Perez, 22; Matthew Bar­clay, 27; and Dereck Perez 26, re­mained in a sta­ble con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal up to late yes­ter­day.

The dri­ver, 26-year-old Ker­ron Brown, of Pe­tit Cafe Road, Princes Town, was list­ed in a se­ri­ous but sta­ble con­di­tion. Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 1 am, the group of friends was trav­el­ling east along Man­a­ham­bre Road, Princes Town. At Jor­dan Hill Vil­lage, Brown re­port­ed­ly swerved to avoid col­lid­ing with an on­com­ing ve­hi­cle and that made his car plum­met down a precipice. Passers-by con­tact­ed the Princes Town Po­lice and a par­ty of of­fi­cers, led by Cpl Sookdeo, re­spond­ed, ac­com­pa­nied by am­bu­lances. The in­jured were tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal and Gar­cia was lat­er trans­ferred to the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency Ward at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.