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Friday, July 11, 2025

Freeport man recalls fiery rescue

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Ker­wayne Fraz­er, 34, who pulled Stef­fon Mad­ho from a burn­ing car ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing, is ask­ing the in­jured man's fam­i­ly to con­tact him. He said he wants to know if the young man is al­right.Fraz­er, a fa­ther of four from Freeport, pulled Mad­ho from a Nis­san B15 which skid­ded out of con­trol, ran off the road on the south­bound lane of the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way, Freeport, and burst in­to flames. Ke­shav Ra­goo, 20, and Shel­don Ram­di­al, 25, re­mained trapped in­side the car and died at the scene.

Fraz­er told the T&T Guardian he was ac­cus­tomed to as­sist­ing peo­ple in­volved in ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dents be­cause he lives next to the north­bound lane of the high­way, just off the Freeport Fly­over."Liv­ing here we see plen­ty ac­ci­dents. Every­body around here ac­cus­tom to peo­ple crash­ing all hours and we al­ways help who­ev­er we could."Fraz­er re­called: "I was watch­ing foot­ball when I hear a bang. I just run out and cross the high­way and see this car in­side the drain."He said the car was on fire when he ar­rived on the scene.

"I saw fire on the bon­net and then I saw a hand," Fraz­er said. "I re­alised it was the dri­ver try­ing to come out."Fraz­er said he grabbed Mad­ho's hand and pulled him out. "The skin on his hand peeled away when I grabbed him," he said.Fraz­er said as soon Mad­ho got out of the car, it went up in flames. He said Mad­ho told him two of his friends were still in the car but there was noth­ing any­one could do to save them. He said a po­lice car ar­rived on the scene and the of­fi­cers gave him a fire ex­tin­guish­er to try to put out the flames.

"There was gas leak­ing from the car and even though I used out the foam from the ex­tin­guish­er, the car con­tin­ued to blaze."Fraz­er ex­pressed his con­do­lences to the fam­i­lies of Ra­goo and Ram­di­al. He said he had played foot­ball with both men in Freeport on a few oc­ca­sions. Fraz­er said just about an hour af­ter that ac­ci­dent he heard an­oth­er crash and ran out to help. Luck­i­ly, no one was in­jured in that in­ci­dent.

"Par­ents have to think twice about buy­ing fast cars for their chil­dren. I does see too much of them end up on the side of the road," he said.


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