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Trinidad Express wrote:Crash kills three
Car plunges into Mayaro river
Keino Swamber South Bureau
Tuesday, April 14th 2009
TRAGIC LOSS: Julien Jack, father of Julien Jack Jr, speaks to the media outside his home at Ortoire Village, Mayaro, yesterday. His son and two others were killed in an accident in Mayaro on Easter Sunday.-Photo: KRISHNA MAHARAJ
NOT heeding his father's warning to avoid driving during the long Easter weekend, a final year University of the West Indies student's decision to go liming with his cousin and three friends ended in death on Easter Sunday night.
Julien Jack Jr (the driver) 25, his 22-year-old cousin Rod Jack-both of Ortoire Village, Mayaro, and their 18-year-old friend, Adrian Bourne, of Pelican Extension Drive, Morvant, died when the Mazda 3 car they were in crashed into a bridge and plunged into a river. Bourne's brother, Michael, 20, of Bedford Lane, Belmont, and another friend, Stephen Calliste, 18, were treated at hospital and discharged. Calliste is a pupil of Presentation College, San Fernando.
The accident occurred at around 10.25 p.m. in an area known as Grand Lagoon in Mayaro.
For Julien Jr's family, his death was the second tragic one faced within the past 14 months. In February last year, the body of his younger brother, Kern, 22, was found floating in the Ortoire River with marks of violence around his neck. He had been strangled.
At their home yesterday, their father, Julien Sr, told the Express that Julien Jr was a final year Business student at the St Augustine Campus of UWI.
He said his son, who was also a director in the safety management systems company owned by his father, would usually spend weekends at home-arriving on Thursdays and returning to St Augustine on Mondays.
Of his son, Julien Sr said he was considered one of the brighter prospects coming out of the Mayaro area.
"He is one of the students who was receiving sponsorship from bpTT (BP Trinidad and Tobago)," Julien Sr said.
Julien Jr's mother, Dawn Scott-Jack, the principal of the Guayaguayare Secondary School, was said to be relying on her faith in God, as a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, to help her deal with the latest tragedy.
Rod, the son of Julien Sr's sister, Lydia Samaroo, was employed as a rigger and a jackhammer operator, and was described by his stepfather, Wayne Samaroo, as "a good boy". He was the front seat passenger and lived with his grandmother. His father, Carlos Williams, lives in Houston, Texas, USA.
Julien Sr said he had advised his son to keep a low profile over the long weekend.
"I told him to leave the back-seat (of the car) free this weekend. I told him he didn't have to lime, but yesterday (Sunday) they were fooling around in the car," Julien Sr said.
"One of the survivors had a low tolerance for loud music and they were turning up the volume of the music to irritate him. Julien Jr increased the speed-playing the fool and having fun with the guy in the back-and they came around a sharp corner and crashed into a river."
Julien Sr, who had gone in search of his son, was told by a friend during his search that his son had been in an accident. Arriving on the scene, Julien Sr went into the river, pulled out his son and began performing CPR (cardio pulmonary resuscitation).
The effort to revive Julien Jr was continued by paramedics, who then took him to the Mayaro Health Facility where he was pronounced dead.
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