Motorcycle deaths increase by 28% after fatal highway collision

The deaths of two mo­tor­cy­clists in a fa­tal col­li­sion along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way have pushed the num­ber of mo­tor­cy­cle crash­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go to nine for 2026, a 28 per cent in­crease over the same pe­ri­od last year, prompt­ing re­newed calls for mo­torists to ex­er­cise cau­tion and obey traf­fic laws.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), road safe­ty or­gan­i­sa­tion Ar­rive Alive and Trans­port Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our have all ap­pealed to mo­torists to recog­nise the se­ri­ous and of­ten trag­ic con­se­quences of road traf­fic crash­es.

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The warn­ings fol­low Thurs­day’s fa­tal ac­ci­dent along the south­bound lane of the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way near Brent­wood Mall, Ch­agua­nas, in which mo­tor­cy­clists Nicholas Ban­doo and Levi Joseph lost their lives.