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A High Court judge has apportioned liability equally between two drivers involved in a fatal head-on collision on Orange Valley Main Road, Couva, awarding damages totalling more than $300,000 to the estate of the dead driver.

In a judgment on January 22, Justice Kevin Ramcharan found that both vehicles were at least partially on the wrong side of the road at the time of impact and that, in the absence of reliable independent evidence, fault should be shared equally.

“This is a case where, unfortunately, one of the parties to the accident is deceased, and where there are no other witnesses. The court, therefore, only has the benefit of the evidence of one of the parties to the accident, who would have an interest to serve.