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WHEN news broke on Wednesday night that her husband and only son had been killed in an accident on the highway at Debe , Rena Singh was too traumatised to visit the scene.

The mother of two stayed at home and started to weep and pray.

Her husband, Prem “Bulldog” Singh, 60, and their 24-year-old son Ryan, lived with her at Suchit Trace, Penal.

Singh’s daughter, Ria, who began crying, said, “She is a Christian and kept on praying. It was too much for her to go and see them like that.

“I too could not face that. I miss my father and my brother. My mother is sickly, and I have to be strong for her.”

The survivor, 24-year-old Navindra Kelvin Latchan, was up to yesterday at the San Fernando General Hospital in critical condition. He lives at Debe Trace, Debe. At about 9.30 pm on Wednesday, the three were returning to their homes from Palmyra, where the father and son had gone to pick up Latchan, a pineapple farmer.

Eyewitnesses told police their car, driven by Ryan, began swerving out of control on the southbound lane of the extension of the Solomon Hochoy Highway near UWI campus in Debe. The car crashed into the concrete base of a metal electricity pole, killing the father and son. Latchan, the back-seat passenger, was taken to hospital.

Prem’s brother Harry told Newsday the father and son left home earlier on Wednesday to pick up Latchan from his garden.

“My brother was a sickly man and was on disability grant. Ryan was a tiles man and did construction work. They went out during the day.

“This is not easy at all. We don’t know what caused the crash, but the car was wrapped around the pole,” said Harry.

Ryan was the father of a girl.

Cpl Ramnarine of the Southern Division is investigating.

The two deaths pushed the road fatality to five for the year.