Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

Six years af­ter he sur­vived a car crash in which his moth­er was killed, T&TEC fore­man Navin Ma­habir lost his life when his car ran off the road and col­lid­ed with two ve­hi­cles in La Ro­maine ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing. Ma­habir, 38, of Guapo Main Road, Fyz­abad, died on the spot af­ter his Nis­san Ce­firo spun out of con­trol along the South Trunk Road at around 1.30 am and col­lid­ed head-on with a black Mer­cedes Benz dri­ven by Adri­an Wong, of Fer­oze Khan Av­enue, St Au­gus­tine.

Po­lice said Ma­habir's car al­so col­lid­ed a yel­low Galant dri­ven by Isi­ah Fran­cois, 33, of New Vil­lage, Point Fortin. Wong and Fran­cois were tak­en by am­bu­lance to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Ram­goolam vis­it­ed the scene and or­dered Ma­habir's body re­moved to the San Fer­nan­do mor­tu­ary. Ma­habir's broth­er Prakash said he did not know where Ma­habir was head­ing when he left home at around 11 pm.

He said Ma­habir was pro­mot­ed to the rank of se­nior fore­man at T&TEC?two weeks ago and was look­ing for­ward to buy­ing his own home. "He was very proud of his achieve­ment be­cause he stud­ied and trained for two years be­fore he got the po­si­tion...He was look­ing for­ward to buy­ing his own place," Prakash said. He said Ma­habir's com­mon-law wife Mar­i­on Balka­ran was in­con­solable and had to be se­dat­ed.

Ma­habir had two chil­dren, Mark, 13, and Javid, nine, from a pre­vi­ous re­la­tion­ship. "Since his pro­mo­tion he was putting in a lot of ex­tra hours," Prakash said. Ma­habir's moth­er Lin­da, died on April 23, 2006, in an ac­ci­dent at Fyz­abad Main Road. She was a pas­sen­ger in a grey Nis­san Primera dri­ven by Ma­habir which col­lid­ed with an­oth­er ve­hi­cle near the Fyz­abad Com­pos­ite School. Cpl Seep­er­sad of the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to yes­ter­day's fa­tal ac­ci­dent.