The father of the schoolboy killed in an accident on Wednesday is appealing to schoolchildren to use the transport provided to them by their schools and stop traveling in PH taxis. Keith Lewis, of Sudama Alley, Siparia, whose 16-year-old son, Kai, died in the accident along with the car’s driver, Nicholas Phills, spoke to the T&T Guardian while awaiting his son’s autopsy report at the San Fernando mortuary yesterday.
Phills was nearly decapitated in the accident after he skidded on the wet roadway and slammed into a truck on Robert Hill, Siparia. “Kai used to always use the maxi but recently he started following his friends and travelling in taxis,” the distraught father said.
“If he was on the bus, this would never had happened to him,” he added.
“The school provides a bus service. Those drivers are trained in defensive driving. They know how to handle themselves properly on the road,” he said. He sent a message to “PH” taxi drivers as well. “PH drivers also need to understand they have the lives of children in their hands. Right now I know everybody hustling to make a dollar but you have to stop and think about what you are doing.”
Another student injured in the crash, Abeola Henry, 15, remains in a critical condition.