ROXANNE JOE-FINDLAY'S family last saw her at their La Horquetta home on Old Year's night just before she left to work a 10 to 6 shift at the Millennium Lake Golf Course in Trincity. She is the first person to be killed in a vehicular accident for 2011.

Around 7.15 a.m, yesterday, the victim's sister, Hazel-Ann Joe-Howard, received a call from Findlay's phone but when she answered, it was not her sister's voice at the other end. It was a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force who told Joe-Howard that her sister was involved in an accident .

Howard said the soldier did not give her any other information but later called back and told her that the accident occurred on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway near to the University of Trinidad and Tobago campus at O'Meara, Arima.

She said when her family arrived at the scene, there was a truckload of soldiers and several police officers present, adding that the officers were not co-operative with her relatives about what transpired.

Police said Joe-Findlay was seated in the back seat of a blue Nissan B12 motorcar, driven by Aaron Barry, which was proceeding west along the highway near UTT, when the vehicle collided with a Mazda 323 which was driven by Defence Force soldier Samuel Raymond, who was proceeding in the opposite direction. Raymond, police said, is assigned to Camp Cumuto.

Joe-Findlay died at the scene, while Raymond and Barry were taken to the Arima District Hospital and treated for non-life threatening injuries. Investigations are continuing into the incident.