FOUR people, including a Guyanese and Venezuelan national, lost their lives in two separate road accidents between Monday night and the early hours of yesterday morning.

According to police reports, at around 3 a.m. yesterday, Ronald ’Charlie’ Ramcharitar, 28, was driving his silver Toyota motor car east along the Western Main Road, Cocorite, when his car crashed into a culvert, causing the vehicle to overturn several times before finally slamming into a lightpole at the side of the road.

Ramcharitar, of Benny Singh Street, Arouca, was reportedly thrown from the car, smashing his head into a drain, police said.

The other victims of the crash were identified as Dwayne ’Massive’ Adolph, 27, also of Benny Singh Street, and a Venezuelan known only as Gabriella. They, too, died at the scene.

The two other occupants, who survived the crash and remain warded at the Port of Spain General Hospital in critical condition up to yesterday evening, were identified as Tamika Lewis, 22, and Ryan Williams. Williams is a student of El Dorado Secondary School while Lewis was said to be from Guyana.

Police said they believe the group was returning from ’taking a sea bath’ in Chaguaramas as bags with wet clothing were found in the trunk of the car.

And at around 8 p.m. on Monday, police said Sean Octive, 39, a Guyanese national, was attempting to cross the Priority Bus Route in the vicinity of Railway Road, Arouca, when he was struck by a 12-seater red band maxi-taxi proceeding west. He also died on the scene.

Two occupants of the maxi, Dianne Alvarez and Angela Guy, suffered minor injuries. They were taken to the Mt Hope Hospital where they were treated and discharged.

The four deaths pushed the road fatality figure for the year thus far to 156.