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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Man killed by falling lightpole

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Two men are now dead fol­low­ing two sep­a­rate ac­ci­dents ear­li­er this week while a miss­ing 78-year-old man was found dead in a pond at Fish­ing Pond, San­gre Grande, on Tues­day.In the first ac­ci­dent 69-year-old Bas­deo Ba­toon died af­ter a car struck a light­pole which fell and struck him on the head while he at­tempt­ed to cross the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route near Dins­ley Vil­lage, Tacarigua.

Ba­toon, of Best Street, Trinci­ty, was the fa­ther of five. His sis­ter, Vashty, said none of his chil­dren were aware that he died and are hop­ing that through the me­dia they could be in­formed.Po­lice re­ports are that a Nis­san B-13 crashed in­to the light­pole af­ter re­ceiv­ing a "bad dri­ve" around 11.30 am on Mon­day. Ba­toon died on the spot.

In the sec­ond ac­ci­dent Ju­nior "Chick­en" Nor­ie­ga, 43, of An­drew Lane, D'Abadie, died when his mo­tor­cy­cle crashed along the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way, near the Gold­en Grove in­ter­sec­tion. He was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Com­plex where he lat­er died from his in­juries.

In San­gre Grande, Kalarchan Bar­ratt was found dead one day af­ter he went miss­ing from his Fish­ing Pond home.He was found face down in a pond ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.An au­top­sy re­port at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, yes­ter­day re­vealed he suf­fered a stroke.His nephew, Bob­by Bar­ratt, de­scribed him as lov­ing man who was last seen alive on Mon­day around noon.Bar­ratt said his un­cle was a strong and healthy man who would ride his bi­cy­cle around the fam­i­ly's nine acres of land.


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