(Trinidad Express) Every driver stopped, turned off the ignition, and waited, fearing the force of floodwaters pouring across M-1 Ring Road near Princes Town on Thursday afternoon.
Every driver except Annan Boysie, who calculated that his four-wheel-drive pick-up could make it through.
But as he drove into the flood, it became deeper and swifter, and lifted the vehicle, taking it into a ditch, where it sank, and began filling with water.
The men who had shouted and pleaded with Boysie not to drive into that flood, were the very men who tried to save him.
They secured themselves with rope and swam out to Boysie’s vehicle, and attempted to open the doors and smash the windows to get him out.
But it was too late.
When the floods subsided, Boysie’s body was found in the back seat, where he had apparently climbed, to find a pocket of air that ran out.
