'Jewel' dies in accident

Accident victim Leeandra Jewel Phroodom
Accident victim Leeandra Jewel Phroodom

UPDATE:

POLICE are reminding citizens to wear their seatbelts after Leeandra Jewel Phroodom, a 32-year-old mother of two, died when she was ejected from her car in a crash yesterday morning.
Road safety co-ordinator, PC Brent Batson, told Sunday Newsday police are concerned about the number of reports of people being pitched out of their vehicles. In many of the incidents, the “occupant compartment remained intact” suggesting that if the victims were buckled in their seats they would have most likely survived.

“The TTPS is extremely concerned that this is the fourth highway fatality recently where people have been ejected from their vehicles. We urge drivers to adhere to the basic safety procedures and obey the law,” Batson said.

Batson said Phroodom was the 76th road death to date, compared to the same period last year when there were 82 fatalities. Police report Phroodom, of Derrick Road, Chase Village, was heading north along the Uriah Butler Highway when she crashed into the median, around 1 am, near the Caroni surveillance bay.

The car flipped several times and Phroodom and her passenger, Rakesh Seebarack, were thrown from the vehicle and landed on the south bound lane of the highway. Seebarack is listed in a critical condition at Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope while Phroodom died on the scene.

On Phroodom’s Facebook page, a relative posted said: “Life is too short, today we here and tomorrow we don’t know what we have in store for us. One of the most beautiful, loving, kind-hearted, down to earth (person) in my life has pass(ed) on to the great beyond. May your soul rest in peace. I know in my heart my angel now in heaven. Love you Jewel. I miss you.”

ORIGINAL STORY:

A 32-year-old woman is dead and her male passenger fighting for his life after an early morning accident along the Uriah Butler Highway.

Police reports indicate that Leeandra Phroodom, also called Jewel, of Derrick Road, Chase Village, was heading south along the highway when she crashed near Warren Road around 1 am. Police said the car flipped several times and Phroodom was thrown from the vehicle. Her passenger Dale Seebalack is warded in a critical condition at hospital.

Corporal Ramdin of the Chaguanas Police Station is continuing investigations.

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