A 34-year-old woman has died, a Mara­cas-St Joseph man lost both legs and five peo­ple were hurt in three sep­a­rate ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dents from Tues­day night in­to yes­ter­day.

At 4 am, Nick­eila Ryan, of Mon Re­pos Road, Mor­vant, died in a head-on col­li­sion along La­dy Young Road. Po­lice said Ryan was dri­ving a car north along the road­way when the ac­ci­dent oc­curred. Her death took the road fa­tal­i­ty toll to 10 for the year, five less than last year.

An hour ear­li­er, Ja­son Roberts lost both legs when he crashed in­to a bus shed along the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way at 3.05 am.

Roberts, of Wharf Trace, Mara­cas Trace, St Joseph, was dri­ving west along the high­way when he lost con­trol of the car he was dri­ving and crashed in­to a bus shed near Xtra Foods. He was ward­ed in a sta­ble but se­ri­ous con­di­tion and lost both legs un­der the knees.

A four-ve­hi­cle col­li­sion on Tues­day night in South Oropouche left five peo­ple in­jured, in­clud­ing four dri­vers and a pas­sen­ger. The in­ci­dent oc­curred just be­fore 7 pm along the high­way near the Oropouche Fly­over.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the chain of events be­gan when a po­lice of­fi­cer parked his car on the side of the road near the Oropouche turn-off to as­sist a rel­a­tive whose ve­hi­cle, a Nis­san B15, had stalled.

The of­fi­cer’s rel­a­tive, who is phys­i­cal­ly chal­lenged, re­mained in the car while help was pro­vid­ed. Short­ly af­ter, a mo­torist dri­ving a sil­ver Mit­subishi L200 pulled over to of­fer as­sis­tance. Once the re­pairs were com­plet­ed, both dri­vers were re­turn­ing to their ve­hi­cles when a Kia K2700 struck the rear of the Mit­subishi L200. The im­pact caused the Kia to flip on­to its right side and it end­ed up block­ing both lanes of the high­way.

With­in sec­onds, a white Hon­da Vezel, pro­ceed­ing to­wards Point Fortin crashed in­to the over­turned Kia. The Hon­da land­ed on its hood.

The dri­vers, along with a back-seat pas­sen­ger in the Mit­subishi L200, sus­tained in­juries. They were tak­en by Emer­gency Health Ser­vices (EHS) am­bu­lances to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for med­ical at­ten­tion.

The dam­aged ve­hi­cles were towed to the Oropouche Po­lice Sta­tion pend­ing fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions.