The num­ber of fa­tal road ac­ci­dents has in­creased by two as An­gel­lia Jack­son and Ka­mal Shar­ma were vic­tims of two sep­a­rate crash­es. Jack­son, 25, of St Mary's, Moru­ga, was the pas­sen­ger of a B13 dri­ven by Sean Au­gus­tine. The ve­hi­cle was head­ing east along the M1 Ring Road in St Madeleine. A pick-up truck was ap­proach­ing from the op­po­site di­rec­tion when the dri­ver lost con­trol of the ve­hi­cle and col­lid­ed with Au­gus­tine's car. Jack­son died on the spot.

Jack­son's fa­ther, An­tho­ny John who is a sergeant with Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Unit, said he spoke with his daugh­ter at 9 am yes­ter­day.

John said: "She al­ways calls to tell her dad­dy good morn­ing. My daugh­ter was mar­ried to Col­in Jack­son, but they are sep­a­rat­ed. She and Au­gus­tine went to lime at the Wilkes Pub in Co­coyea. Then a while af­ter, I got the call that she had died." Cor­po­ral Dwight Hall, of the Princes Town Po­lice Sta­tion, is in­ves­ti­gat­ing. In an­oth­er in­ci­dent, a 44-year-old man died in ve­hic­u­lar smash-up on Mos­qui­to Creek, San Fer­nan­do.

A 26-year-old man, of Wood­land, was dri­ving along the Creek and at­tempt­ed to turn in­to Oropouche when an­oth­er dri­ver, head­ing in the op­po­site di­rec­tion, over­took a line of traf­fic. A col­li­sion fol­lowed.

The over­tak­ing car flipped over, and ac­cord­ing to an eye­wit­ness, the oc­cu­pant of the back­seat, Shar­ma, was thrown from the ve­hi­cle. He died on the spot. Shar­ma was a res­i­dent of Cipero Road, Gol­con­da Vil­lage. Act­ing ASP Bas­deo, act­ing In­sp Ram­nanan and Cor­po­ral Samuel of the South Oropouche Po­lice Sta­tion are con­duct­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.