{"id":904655,"date":"2026-05-09T08:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/innocent-couples-journey-ends-in-death-on-highway-news-extra-trinidadexpress-com\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:12:29","slug":"innocent-couples-journey-ends-in-death-on-highway-news-extra-trinidadexpress-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/innocent-couples-journey-ends-in-death-on-highway-news-extra-trinidadexpress-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Innocent couple’s journey ends in death on highway | News Extra | trinidadexpress.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A man was killed in a highway crash near the Munroe Road Flyover on Sunday afternoon after a pickup crossed the median and slammed into an oncoming car.<\/p>\n

Dead is Michael King, the driver of a black Kia Cerato.<\/p>\n

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Police said King was driving north with his wife, Severina Farrah Francois of Lopinot Road, when the collision occurred shortly after 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

Investigators said a black 4X4 pickup, driven by a 22-year-old man of Bamboo No. 3, Valsayn, was travelling south near the Munroe Road Flyover.<\/p>\n

Also in the pickup was a passenger, a 24-year-old woman.<\/p>\n

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According to police, the pickup went out of control, crossed the median and collided with King\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n

King was crushed in the vehicle, and succumbed to his injuries at the scene.<\/p>\n

He had to be cut out of the wreckage.<\/p>\n

Francois and the occupants of the pickup were critically injured and taken for medical treatment.<\/p>\n

Dash cam footage circulating on social media appeared to show the pickup moving from the fast lane into the slow lane moments before the driver lost control.<\/p>\n

The vehicle then veered into the opposite lane, narrowly missing other vehicles in the southbound lanes before crossing the median and crashing into the Kia.<\/p>\n

The crash caused traffic gridlock that lasted for hours.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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A man was killed in a highway crash near the Munroe Road Flyover on Sunday afternoon after a pickup crossed the median and slammed into an oncoming car. Dead is Michael King, the driver of a black Kia Cerato. Police said King was driving north with his wife, Severina Farrah Francois of Lopinot Road, when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":904656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4341,40805],"tags":[8187,110163],"class_list":{"0":"post-904655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-couples","8":"category-innocent","9":"tag-couples","10":"tag-innocent"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904655","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=904655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}