After being told that his wife and baby girl had died in the crash which left him injured, Ivan Ramjit wanted to look them in the face and say he was sorry, relatives said yesterday.

Ramjit was listed in stable condition at the San Fernando General Hospital yesterday.

He will be sent home in time for the double funeral tomorrow.

Mohan Premchand, his brother-in-law, said 40-year-old Ramjit was distraught over the deaths and wanted to be at the funeral.

’He had some dental work done this morning and then he would be sent home,’ Premchand said.

Ramjit was driving his silver-grey AD Wagon along the south-bound lane of the Solomon Hochoy Highway near Gasparillo on Sunday when he lost control and slammed into a lightpole.

His daughter, Vionna, was thrown into some bushes. She died on the spot.

Vionna would have turned one the next day.

His wife, 35-year-old Shamilla, was also thrown from the vehicle onto the highway.

She died while undergoing treatment at hospital about an hour later.

The mother and daughter were seated on the front passenger seat, police said.

The baby was not secured in a car seat and Shamilla appeared not to be wearing her seat belt, police said.

An autopsy revealed that they died from injuries consistent with the crash.

The couple had gone to PriceSmart in Chaguanas to buy a birthday cake for little Vionna and were returning home when the accident happened.

Their ten-year-old son, Vion, remained at home with relatives.

He was still in shock, relatives said yesterday. San Fernando police are continuing investigations.