One day af­ter an uniden­ti­fied man was struck and killed while try­ing to cross the east­bound lane of the Beetham High­way, po­lice are re­port­ing that there has been a 41 per cent de­crease in the num­ber of road traf­fic deaths for the year thus far.

De­spite this de­cline, how­ev­er, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) road safe­ty co­or­di­na­tor, Sgt Brent Bat­son, said that pedes­tri­an deaths con­tin­ue to be a chal­lenge.

Re­spond­ing to Guardian Me­dia’s ques­tions via What­sApp yes­ter­day, Bat­son re­ferred to footage of the ac­ci­dent, which showed the mo­ment of col­li­sion when the man was struck by the dri­ver of a white Nis­san Note as an ex­am­ple of the se­ri­ous con­se­quences of “un­safe, reck­less cross­ing.”