MORE than $500,000 has been awarded to the mother of a 33-year-old woman who, along with her ten-year-old nephew, were killed in a 2019 road traffic accident along the Manzanilla-Mayaro Road, after the High Court found a waste disposal company and one of its drivers liable for the fatal crash.

In a judgment delivered late last month, Justice Joan Charles ruled in favour of Jennifer Meliville, the administratrix of the estate of Alisha Melissa Carrington, after finding that the accident was caused by the negligence of truck driver Kerwyn Lynch.

The claim was brought against Waste Disposal (2003) Ltd, Lynch, and Trinre Insurance Company Ltd, following the September 7, 2019, collision which resulted in Carrington’s death.