Unless there is a new motor vehicle authority the road carnage will continue, warned Arrive Alive president Sharon Inglefield. She was commenting on the three road accidents over the weekend in which three men and a woman died. In a phone interview, Inglefield said: “To improve the competency of drivers we need a whole new motor vehicle authority because there is not enough transparency and integrity in our licensing system.”
She said a number of the accident victims were young drivers, below 35. Now that the law has finally been passed, she said police should be on the roads with radar guns to monitor speeding.
“Constant and consistant police patrols on the nation’s roads will be preventative course of action for serious collisions and therefore reduce fatalities,” Inglefield added.
In addition to enforcing the law, she said a new motor vehicle authority must be established “because without adequate enforcement the carnage will continue and it is not only the police but also the laws that are required.” Expressing condolences to the families of the four crash victims, she renewed her appeal to drivers to take care. “Arrive Alive once again is cautioning all drivers to remember that speed kills and we wish to remind you that you must obtain enough rest because the lack of sleep, combined with speed, is a fatal cocktail,” she added.
How the accidents took place
The first accident happened around 4 am on Saturday when Richard Kevon Bailey, 28, of Union Hall, San Fernando, and Kamau Daniel Forrester, 33, of Sobo Village, La Brea, died when their cars collided on Mosquito Creek, La Romaine. The second accident took place around 3 am on Sunday. Sade Hernandez, 28, of San Fernando, was in the front passenger seat of her car, being driven by her friend Nicholas Wilson, when it slammed into a parked car on the Solomon Hochoy Highway near Gasparillo. Wilson, 27, of Marabella, received minor injuries. And around 9.15 am Kyle Mendoza, 19, of Gasparillo, was driving south along the Uriah Butler Highway when he crashed into a tree near the Caroni Bird Sanctuary and his car split in two. He died on the scene.