JENSEN LA VENDE

Se­nior Re­porter

jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt

Ac­ci­dent sur­vivor Yousuf Ho­sein is once again mak­ing an ap­peal to Gov­ern­ment to in­stall pro­tec­tive bar­ri­ers, af­ter an­oth­er fa­tal cross-me­di­an crash over the week­end.

Ho­sein, who sur­vived a sim­i­lar ac­ci­dent in 2012, is call­ing on Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John and Min­is­ter of Trans­port Eli Za­k­our to con­tin­ue the in­stal­la­tion of guard rails on high­ways to pre­vent the loss of lives and limbs on the na­tion’s high­ways.

Ho­sein’s ap­peal comes af­ter Laven­tille res­i­dent Michael King died on Sun­day af­ter­noon, af­ter a pick-up slammed in­to him while he was dri­ving along the Uri­ah But­ler High­way in Ch­agua­nas.

Po­lice said King, of Fur­ness Whit­ty, Pri­vate Road, Suc­cess Vil­lage, Laven­tille, was head­ing north along the high­way around 5.30 pm when a black Mit­subishi Sportero, which was head­ing south, crossed the me­di­an and slammed in­to the Kia Cer­a­to he was dri­ving.

Front seat pas­sen­ger Sev­e­ri­na Fran­cois was al­so in­jured and was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences, Mt Hope, where she was treat­ed for brain in­juries.

The dri­ver of the Sportero was tak­en to the Ch­agua­nas Health Fa­cil­i­ty, along with his pas­sen­ger, where they were treat­ed and lat­er dis­charged.

In an emailed re­sponse to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture said cur­rent­ly, a guardrail project for the me­di­an in Gas­par­il­lo is be­ing un­der­tak­en, with the re­main­ing 200 me­tres of guard rail­ing sched­uled to be com­plet­ed by Thurs­day.

The $200,000 project is be­ing done by Unisure Lim­it­ed.

“The Min­istry and Works and In­fra­struc­ture takes this op­por­tu­ni­ty to urge all road users to ex­er­cise cau­tion when us­ing the na­tion’s road­ways,” the Min­istry added.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, a 41-year-old Curepe man slammed in­to the back of a car af­ter suf­fer­ing a heart at­tack while dri­ving on Sun­day night.

Po­lice re­port­ed that Randy Siew, of Al­ice Street, Curepe, was pro­nounced dead at the scene by the Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer.

Po­lice said around 8.15 pm, Siew was head­ing north along the Uri­ah But­ler High­way in his Suzu­ki Grand Vi­tara, near Ca­roni, when he suf­fered a my­ocar­dial in­farc­tion and slammed in­to the back of a Nis­san Syl­phy dri­ven by Him­lal Samdeo, 40, of Clax­ton Bay.

Siew, who had two el­der­ly pas­sen­gers in his ve­hi­cle, veered off the road af­ter the ac­ci­dent.

Both pas­sen­gers, ages 65 and 70, sus­tained in­juries and were tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, while Samdeo did not re­port any in­juries.