By INDARJIT SEURAJ Wednesday, October 21 2009

FOUR more persons were killed in road accidents between Monday night and yesterday morning, pushing the road fatality figure so far for this year to 159.

The latest victims have been identified as Ronald Ramcharitar, 28, and Dwayne Adolph, 27, both of Benny Singh Street in Arouca. And an unidentified woman up to press time.

The three were killed yesterday when the metallic gold Toyota Corolla driven by Ramcharitar overturned and crashed along the Foreshore, Audrey Jeffers Highway.

In a separate accident on Monday at about 8 pm, 38-year-old Sean Gregory Octave was attempting to cross the Priority Bus Route (PBR) in Arouca when he was struck by an oncoming maxi-taxi. He died instantly.

In the first incident, according to police, at about midnight, Ramcharitar was driving his vehicle (PCN 1708) east along the Audrey Jeffers Highway when on reaching the exit to Ariapita Avenue, his car veered off the road and crashed into a concrete culvert.

The vehicle overturned several times before landing in a ditch. Ramcharitar, Adolph and the woman all died at the scene.

Two others passengers — Ryan Williams, 18, of Williams Street, Arouca, and Guyanese national Tameika Lewis, 22, of Trincity, were taken to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital for treatment and they remain warded in serious condition.

The road deaths bring the number of people killed in vehicular accidents between Sunday and yesterday to five.

On Sunday, Clyde Ali, 30, of Princes Town, was killed when the vehicle in which he was travelling crashed into a concrete culvert at the side of the Beetham Highway.

Ali, a back seat passenger in the Toyota Corolla, was thrown out of the car on impact and died instantly.