A POINT CUMANA MAN is the country’s latest road fatality after he died on arrival at the Port of Spain General Hospital after slamming into a concrete barricade.
Dax Beckles was heading home in his Nissan Tida when his car slammed into the barricade near the International School, Westmoorings.
Beckles, 32, of Senora Park, Point Cumana, had recently returned to Trinidad after spending time in the United States and Canada.
According to reports around 4.45 a.m. Beckles was heading west along the Western Main Road when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the barrier.
Beckles is said to have been thrown out of the driver’s window as the car veered into a nearby ditch.
Four Roads Police Station are continuing investigations.
Beckles’s death brought the road fatality figure for the year so far to 179.
