Den­nis Taye Allen of TT Game Plan, a dig­i­tal jour­nal­ism, and sports ad­vo­ca­cy plat­form, has de­scribed the Skin­ner Park cy­cling track in San Fer­nan­do as a ‘death trap’.

A me­dia prac­ti­tion­er for the past 30 years, Taye Allen’s com­ments came fol­low­ing the trag­ic death of his friend and cy­clist Col­in “Creepy” Wil­son, 44, of Diego Mar­tin at the venue dur­ing a six-lap mas­ters 40-40 race on the open­ing night of the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion East­er Grand Prix to­geth­er with the Caribbean Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships and the Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships.

An emo­tion­al Allen, who is cur­rent­ly at the Carif­ta Track and Field Cham­pi­onship in St George’s, Grena­da, in speak­ing to CNC3, high­light­ed what he de­scribed as con­cerns about the Skin­ner Park cy­cling track at the venue, which he said has been known to many of­fi­cials and cy­clists alike for years.