Two killed in accidents
By LAUREL V WILLIAMS Sunday, May 15 2016
http://newsday.co.tt/news/0,227823.htmlLESS than two hours after a woman expressed her displeasure on Facebook about the recently enforced 80 kilometres per hour (kph) speed limits for motorists, she died in a vehicular accident on Friday night along the Uriah Butler Highway, Chaguanas.
Police identified the dead woman as Kathy-Ann St John, of Princes Town.
A police report stated that about 10.30 pm, St John was a front seat passenger of a white Nissan AD wagon driven by her boyfriend, David Changwai.
The report added that Changwai lost control of the vehicle whilst on the north-bound lane, of the highway in the vicinity of the Munroe Road overpass, and crashed into a ditch. St John died instantly, police said, while Changwai was rushed to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope.
At about 9 pm, St John posted a meme which read: “Oh doh study me. I just trying to drive from Sando to Maracas within the speed limit.” The meme showed a human skeleton in the driver’s seat of a red vehicle. The meme was accompanied by a post in which, she expressed her displeasure about an apparent interaction she had with a female police officer about the traffic laws. St John stated: “Dem on (explicit) , telling me n d huzzie I have to get a car seat for a 5 year old, well my mouth hot so I let she have it, talk done” .
In a comment to her own post, St John stated that a police wanted “to give us a ticket cuz of my mouth but d other officer was very nice to us.” That was her last comment on Facebook.
As news of the death spread, several Facebook users expressed shock and sadness on St John’s page.
One user — Aleeka Alisa Joseph- wrote, in reference to the meme: “Babe you post this last night and 24 hours later I’m saying R.I.P to you? No man I doh want to believe this at all.” Another user, Stacy Williams, wrote: “OMG you post this yesterday now you gone. Nah.” Sunday Newsday learnt that only on November 27, St John’s mother, Judy Moore, 65, died.
WPC Glasglow-Browne of the Chaguanas Police Station is continuing investigations into the accident.
And a Coast Guard officer is Tobago’s latest accident victim.
Reports are that Reon Arnold, 30, was riding his bicycle in the vicinity of First Citizens Bank, Canaan, early yesterday, when he slammed into a car driven by Lenora Phillips Edwards.
Arnold was rushed to the Scarborough Hospital but succumbed to his injuries while undergoing surgery at the facility.
Edwards received minor injuries Ironically, Arnold’s brother, Keron Antoine Arnold, also died in a car accident, two years ago, along Shirvan Road.
