One-year-old Kailee-Ann Frederick will grow up never knowing her parents as both of them were killed instantly in a vehicular accident at the Mausica Intersection of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway yesterday.
According to a police report, shortly before noon Kevin Fredrick and his common-law-wife, Karelle Nicholson were in a white Nissan Tiida proceeding along the west bound-lane of the highway when Frederick, who was driving, apparently lost control of the vehicle.
An eyewitness told the T&T Guardian that he noticed the vehicle from a distance travelling at a “good speed.”
“It then suddenly stopped and the vehicle flipped about four times before landing on its side on the side of the highway parallel to the late chicken magnate Jai Ramkissoon’s property.
The vehicle was a mangled wreck and its sides were ripped off on impact.
Frederick, 25, and Nicholson, 27, who were in the vehicle were thrown from it onto the side of the road. They both died instantly.
Kailee-Ann’s car seat, which was in the vehicle, was also thrown out causing responding police officers and relatives to frantically search the overgrown grass looking for the couple’s one-year-old baby.
However, after about one hour a relative showed up on the scene with the baby girl in hand. The baby was dropped off at the relative a short while before the accident occurred.
It is believed that Frederick was on his way to drop off Nicholson at her place of work. Frederick originally lived in Arima, while Nicholson was from Arouca. They, however, were said to be living in Maloney.
Preliminary investigations carried out by police officers suggest that the couple may have been engaged in a heated argument at the time of the accident.
Relatives who arrived on the scene were overwhelmed with grief. One woman, who was screaming and crying uncontrollably, hurled abusive language at members of the media and told to leave the scene and to leave the family alone.
A close friend of Nicholson, who wished not to be identified, said that Nicholson previously worked as a sales representative for a popular clothing store and was a chef in training.
Nicholson also worked as a security guard in Piarco.
The bodies were viewed by the District Medical Officer and removed to the mortuary at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mount Hope.
The autopsies on the bodies are expected to be conducted later today.
Investigations are continuing.
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