{"id":852495,"date":"2025-05-31T22:12:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T03:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/mother-of-four-dies-in-accident-on-diego-martin-highway\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T22:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T03:12:47","slug":"mother-of-four-dies-in-accident-on-diego-martin-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/mother-of-four-dies-in-accident-on-diego-martin-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of four dies in accident on Diego Martin Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page-content\">\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/category\/news\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<header>\n<\/header>\n<address>\n\t<a rel=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/reporter\/gregory_mc_burnie\"><br \/>\n\t\tGregory Mc Burnie<br \/>\n\t<\/a><br \/>\n<\/address>\n<p><time pubdate datetime=\"2025-05-05\" title=\"Monday 5 May 2025\">Monday 5 May 2025<\/time><\/p>\n<figure id=\"article-featured-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/24059339-e1746533398519.jpg\" alt=\"Chiffon Daniel. - \"><figcaption>Chiffon Daniel. &#8211; <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>THE family of a 35-year-old woman who died in a car accident on the way home from a relative\u2019s birthday party say they cannot bring themselves to deliver the bad news to her children.<\/p>\n<p>The accident on the Diego Martin Highway on May 5, also left the woman\u2019s son and two other people hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p>Police say around 2 am on May 5, Chiffon Daniel of Savannah Terrace, Bagatelle and her special-needs son were passengers in a White Nissan B15 heading west along Sierra Leone Road.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel had just finished celebrated her sister\u2019s birthday and was on the way home when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The driver slowed at the traffic light and when it turned green, tried to cross the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a White Nissan Frontier heading south on the highway broke the light and hit the left side of the B15, causing it to flip several times and land on the hood.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel, who was the front seat passenger, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Her 10-year-old son, who was in a car seat in the rear of vehicle, received a head injury and was taken to the St James Infirmary before being transferred to the Mount Hope Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers of both vehicles remain warded at the St James Infirmary.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives have described Daniel as a hardworking mother of four and say her death hasn\u2019t yet hit home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was the breadwinner in the family. Right now it hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her family said they have not yet told her children what happened as they could not bring themselves to deliver the bad news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt aint feel real nah. But the family still grieving so everybody head hot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Nissan Frontier will be questioned in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Cpl Sheppard of the West End Police Station is continuing enquiries.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2025\/05\/05\/mother-of-four-dies-in-accident-on-diego-martin-highway\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Gregory Mc Burnie Monday 5 May 2025 Chiffon Daniel. &#8211; THE family of a 35-year-old woman who died in a car accident on the way home from a relative\u2019s birthday party say they cannot bring themselves to deliver the bad news to her children. The accident on the Diego Martin Highway on May 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":852496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[609,801],"tags":[7418,8786],"class_list":{"0":"post-852495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-accident","8":"category-mother","9":"tag-accident","10":"tag-mother"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}