Car ploughs into cyclists on Beetham killing two, injuring many

[pugboy]

All them soldier does drive like imps when they leaving work at cumuto or teteron

[K74T]

[ek4ever]

Black man get killed no uproar, no March, no vigil, not plastered over social media, no minister comment, no nothing!

#wejamminstill

find another avenue for your soapbox... it was on social media... and same as the previous incident in terms of uproar


on another note... shame many still saying cyclists need to be off the roads....

Off the highway yes. Off the rest of the roads? No.

So people who wish to cycle from west to East are left with what alternate routes then, or North ot South?? if they cannot go on the highways?

So many places in the world are encouragning the use of Bicycles to promote health and to help with pollution and green house gases and what does Trinidad do?

Is the highway the only way to access north south and east west?

Why you talking like if someone said don’t cycle on any roads at all?

To ride from Chaguanas to POS is 20km using the highways, and 30km using the Old Southern Main Road/Eastern Main Road as a route. In spite of the longer distance, it would still be marginally quicker to ride on the EMR/SMR to get to town on a typical school morning (compared to driving the 20km route on the highway).

For someone who wants to ride solely just for transport, the most direct route is the highway. It would take less than an hr to ride at an easy pace. Unfortunately this is extremely dangerous as there is currently no infrastructure for this.

If infrastructure put in place for bicycle riders on the highway then that would be great. Until then it just seems like they wanna be right and dead.

Finally, someone making sense. Ppl want to compare Trinidad to other places talking about how they encourage bicycles, ppl riding to work and all that. This is Trinidad.....things not in place for ppl to ride to where they going....we not even close to that. Decades of poor transport services and infrastructure, poor planning and a do-whatever-we-want attitude means that car transport is all we have hence our over-crowded roads and increasing car population.

Cyclists have to stop being naive.....really and truly the gov't should ban cyclists on any road with a speed limit of 100kph. But of course these dumbasses will want to accommodate cyclists by telling drivers to slow down around them, so what the fcuk yuh have a speed limit of 100kph for? Cyclists and cars/trucks cannot occupy the same roads when these roads are classed as highways and are major routes. I mean yuh ever see someone riding down the I-95? Steups.....always eager to demonstrate our 3rd world thinking

[Slartibartfast]

Black man get killed no uproar, no March, no vigil, not plastered over social media, no minister comment, no nothing!

#wejamminstill

find another avenue for your soapbox... it was on social media... and same as the previous incident in terms of uproar


on another note... shame many still saying cyclists need to be off the roads....

Off the highway yes. Off the rest of the roads? No.

So people who wish to cycle from west to East are left with what alternate routes then, or North ot South?? if they cannot go on the highways?

So many places in the world are encouragning the use of Bicycles to promote health and to help with pollution and green house gases and what does Trinidad do?

Is the highway the only way to access north south and east west?

Why you talking like if someone said don’t cycle on any roads at all?

To ride from Chaguanas to POS is 20km using the highways, and 30km using the Old Southern Main Road/Eastern Main Road as a route. In spite of the longer distance, it would still be marginally quicker to ride on the EMR/SMR to get to town on a typical school morning (compared to driving the 20km route on the highway).

For someone who wants to ride solely just for transport, the most direct route is the highway. It would take less than an hr to ride at an easy pace. Unfortunately this is extremely dangerous as there is currently no infrastructure for this.

If infrastructure put in place for bicycle riders on the highway then that would be great. Until then it just seems like they wanna be right and dead.

Finally, someone making sense. Ppl want to compare Trinidad to other places talking about how they encourage bicycles, ppl riding to work and all that. This is Trinidad.....things not in place for ppl to ride to where they going....we not even close to that. Decades of poor transport services and infrastructure, poor planning and a do-whatever-we-want attitude means that car transport is all we have hence our over-crowded roads and increasing car population.

Cyclists have to stop being naive.....really and truly the gov't should ban cyclists on any road with a speed limit of 100kph. But of course these dumbasses will want to accommodate cyclists by telling drivers to slow down around them, so what the fcuk yuh have a speed limit of 100kph for? Cyclists and cars/trucks cannot occupy the same roads when these roads are classed as highways and are major routes. I mean yuh ever see someone riding down the I-95? Steups.....always eager to demonstrate our 3rd world thinking

You are not wrong but I think the main difference what you are focused on. They want to use these incidents as a catalyst to get things put in place to change the way things are.

Telling bikers to stay off the highway will solve the problem but it will also regress the issue. They need to show that they not going anywhere if they want to make a difference. They have make the conscious sacrifice of taking that risk every time they go out for a ride on the highway if they want things to change. I'm not that passionate about riding on the highway to risk it though, or naive enough to ignore the risks so I'll just try my best to share the road with them for now. Honestly, we need more forms of healthy recreation in this country so they still have my support.

[Ben_spanna]

So the man killed 2 people with his car... heard that he did not even get slapped with involuntary manslaughter or even reckless driving... this country really f00king disgusting.... man speeding recklessly loose control and lickup people and no penalty...

[Allergic2BunnyEars]

So the man killed 2 people with his car... heard that he did not even get slapped with involuntary manslaughter or even reckless driving... this country really f00king disgusting.... man speeding recklessly loose control and lickup people and no penalty...

What speed was he going?

[K74T]

So the man killed 2 people with his car... heard that he did not even get slapped with involuntary manslaughter or even reckless driving... this country really f00king disgusting.... man speeding recklessly loose control and lickup people and no penalty...

What speed was he going?

and why wasn’t his control tightened?

[Dizzy28]

Man charged for the Beetham accident -

A lo­cal ac­tor has ap­peared in court over an ac­ci­dent which claimed the lives of chef Joe Brown and fel­low British ex­pat Joan­na Banks, last year.

Ju­nior McIn­tyre, 31, of Cameron Road, Pe­tit Val­ley, was charged with caus­ing the duo’s death by dan­ger­ous dri­ving and dri­ving in a man­ner which was dan­ger­ous to the pub­lic when he ap­peared be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate Cher­ril-Anne An­toine in the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court, on Mon­day.

There was a mi­nor mix-up at the start of the hear­ing with An­toine on­ly read­ing the mi­nor charge to McIn­tyre, tak­ing his not guilty plea and ad­journ­ing his case to Sep­tem­ber 4.

Sev­er­al hours lat­er, McIn­tyre reap­peared be­fore An­toine for the two oth­er more se­ri­ous charges.
http://www.cnc3.co.tt/press-release/dri ... Mkdn77PlNo

[Ben_spanna]

So I take it the driver in currently behind Bars? all went quiet with this case...….

[jm3]

hmmm any updates?

[pugboy]

I know the victims' families got a couple million or so compensation from the driver's insurance
for death by accident.

fyi its not a flat figure, they start at max industry amount and beat it down based on the victim's age, earning capability etc

hmmm any updates?

[Ben_spanna]

I know the victims' families got a couple million or so compensation from the driver's insurance
for death by accident.

fyi its not a flat figure, they start at max industry amount and beat it down based on the victim's age, earning capability etc

hmmm any updates?

All well and good BUT has the driver been in jail? or is he still a free man ?