When Wayne Brown ran off the road early yesterday morning, he hit a lamp pole with so much force, that the engine of his Nissan Medallist car detached and landed about 20 feet away from the vehicle itself.Brown, 24, died at the scene.
The accident happened around 6.30 am along the Rochard Douglas Road in Barrackpore. Wayne reportedly ran off the road and into a gate and two lamp poles.
When the T&T Guardian visited Brown's Gunness Trace, Barrackpore home yesterday, his father, John Wayne Brown, said he had spoken to his eldest child on Saturday about the dangers of speeding on the roadways. There is no official word from police about speeding being the cause, but the elder Brown was sure that it was.
"Just the day before he came home to relax a little in the evening and I told him, 'Boy you mustn't drive so hard on the road, where you rushing to go?" Brown said.
"He tell me he will take his time and drive and a little while later he left."
He said neighbours who stopped at the scene as soon as the accident happened told him Wayne was alive for a few minutes after the crash.
"The neighbour saw it (accident) and said Wayne was moving his head a little and his feet were outside the car, like he was trying to get out. But the seatbelt was very tight on his neck and it looks as though it choked him...he was also bleeding from the nose."
"A few minutes passed and the neighbour said he just saw Wayne's foot go limp."He said fire officers had to cut the seatbelt from his son's body before removing his body from the mangled wreck.
The elder Brown said his son had moved in with his girlfriend a few months ago, but would visit the family home every day.
"He wasn't staying here right through, but he used to come every day. He leave by the girlfriend to come here this morning and he would have gone to work from here."
Wayne was employed as a construction worker.His father said he did not know if his son's car was modified for speed, but he sent out a warning to drivers about speeding.
"Slow down and drive...you are not in a hurry to go anywhere, your life is worth more than that."He made a call for lawmakers to ban 'fast' engines from the roads of T&T.
"I think they should ban all those fast engines, these roads are not for modified cars, we don't have roads for that here."
Brown said he had returned home from Canada, where he works as a grape farmer, on February 2 to spend some time with his family.
"I only came back about two weeks ago, I don't even know what bring me back home, it is such a coincidence this happened now."
An autopsy is to be done this morning at the Forensic Science Centre in St James to determine the cause of death.